| 单词 | toady |
| 释义 | toady (once / 9227 pages) nv You can call the kid who is always really nice to the teacher in hopes of getting a good grade a brown-noser or, if you want to sound clever, a toady. The word toady has a gross, yet engaging history. Back when medicine was more trickery than science, traveling medicine men would come to a town. Their assistant would eat a toad (you read that right) that was assumed poisonous so that the medicine man could "heal" him. Who would want that job, right? So toad-eater, later shortened to toady, came to mean a person who would do anything to please his boss. WORD FAMILYtoady: toadied, toadies, toadying USAGE EXAMPLESNabokov’s commentary on Eugene Onegin is peppered with such jibes, calling one Pushkin translation “execrable” and the author of another one a “toady.” Slate(Dec 20, 2016) Goodell’s toadying may gratify individual owners, but it has undermined their collective trust. Washington Post(Oct 24, 2016) In the meantime, the junta’s toadies have continued to tinker with the text of the constitution, even after the voters signed off on it. Economist(Oct 13, 2016) 1n a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage Syn|Hypo|Hyper ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, sycophant apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect goody-goodya person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior adulator, flatterer a person who uses flattery 2v try to gain favor by cringing or flattering Syn|Hypo|Hyper bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, truckle court favor, court favour, curry favor, curry favour seek favor by fawning or flattery blandish, flatter praise somewhat dishonestly |
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