释义 |
toady1 nountoady2 verb toadytoad‧y1 /ˈtəʊdi $ ˈtoʊ-/ noun (plural toadies) [countable] toady1Origin: 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) - 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 disapprovaltoady1 nountoady2 verb toadytoady2 verb (past tense and past participle toadied, present participle toadying) [intransitive] VERB TABLEtoady |
Present | I, you, we, they | toady | | he, she, it | toadies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | toadied | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have toadied | | he, she, it | has toadied | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had toadied | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will toady | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have toadied |
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Present | I | am toadying | | he, she, it | is toadying | | you, we, they | are toadying | Past | I, he, she, it | was toadying | | you, we, they | were toadying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been toadying | | he, she, it | has been toadying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been toadying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be toadying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will 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 |