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Meanings of toady in English

Portuguese
puxa-saco
Catalan
pilota
Spanish
pelota

Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

puxa-saco

Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.

Usage of toady in English
1
The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
Doctor Thorne
2
Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
One of our Thursdays is missing
3
I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
Hyperion
4
Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
The Irish Times
5
Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
6
Knox is a short man-with all of the attendant complexes-anda Lyman toady.
Saving max
7
A big rascal toady squire of Morsfield's did it for him.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5
8
And she wouldn't be if she didn't toady so to Grace.
A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
9
He loafs about with a toady and calls it friendship.
A Dog with a Bad Name
10
How admirably this toady represents the mind of our President!
The Irish Times
11
And yet she was not a tufthunter, nor a toady.
Miss Mackenzie
12
At one period, when he was becoming an ardent Radical, an obsequious toady said:-
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
13
He has got what he wanted, one way or the other, the good-for-nothing toady!
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
14
Glorious days were those for the penniless, halcyon days for the toady and the sycophant.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1
15
He also didn't remember signing on as her toady.
Lola Carlyle Reveals All
16
His job called for a spy and a toady and he filled these requirements admirably.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
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Spanish
pelota
Toady through the time
Toady across language varieties
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