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单词 toady
释义
toady1 nountoady2 verb
toadytoad‧y1 /ˈtəʊdi $ ˈtoʊ-/ noun (plural toadies) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtoady1
Origin:
1800-1900 toadeater ‘helper of a seller of medicines who pretended to eat toads (thought to be poisonous) to prove the value of the medicine’ (17-19 centuries)
Examples
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  • He felt like a hanger-on, a toady.
  • Is Tony now the Toad's toady?
  • It strikes me that Tommy has already mastered the art of being a toady.
informal someone who pretends to like an important person and does things for them, so that that person will help them – used to show disapproval
toady1 nountoady2 verb
toadytoady2 verb (past tense and past participle toadied, present participle toadying, third person singular toadies) [intransitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
toady
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theytoady
he, she, ittoadies
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theytoadied
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave toadied
he, she, ithas toadied
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad toadied
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill toady
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have toadied
Continuous Form
PresentIam toadying
he, she, itis toadying
you, we, theyare toadying
PastI, he, she, itwas toadying
you, we, theywere toadying
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been toadying
he, she, ithas been toadying
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been toadying
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be toadying
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been toadying
to pretend to like an important person and do things for them, so that they will help you – used to show disapprovaltoady to toadying to the boss
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