| 释义 |
toad-eat, v. rare.|ˈtəʊdˌiːt|
[Back-formation from toad-eater.]
trans. To flatter, fawn upon (a person); to toady. Also intr. So ˈtoad-ˌeating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1766Lady S. Lennox in Life & Lett. (1901) I. 199, I have got Charles into such order, that..he toad eats me beyond all conception. 1767Lady S. Bunbury in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) II. 175, I toad-eat a little cur that is here, only because his name is Raton. 1791Earl Mornington in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 7 Some verses which I took down..as being the excess of toad-eating. 1799― in Stanhope Pitt III. 191 The delight of being toad⁓eated by all India from Cabul to Assam. 1831Jekyll Corr. (1894) 273 Puffing himself in newspapers, and toad-eating Princes and Ministers. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Horatio Sparkins, ‘Decidedly’, said the toad-eating Flamwell. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xlv, A real sister has no motive for such toad-eating. |