toad-eatv.
/ˈtəʊdˌiːt/ rare.
transitive. To flatter, fawn upon (a person); to toady. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)]
fawnc1325
crouch1528
jouk1573
crawl1576
creep1581
spaniel1599
grovel1605
spanielize1641
cringec1660
to lick the ground1667
truckle1680
to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705
toad-eat1766
snool1786
to eat (any one's) toads1788
kowtow1826
sidle1828
toady1861
to knock head1876
ass-lick1937
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
1766 S. Lennox Life & Lett. (1901) I. 199 I have got Charles into such order, that..he toad eats me beyond all conception.
1767 S. Bunbury in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 175 I toad-eat a little cur that is here, only because his name is Raton.
1799 Earl Mornington in Stanhope Pitt III. 191 The delight of being toad~eated by all India from Cabul to Assam.
Derivatives
ˈtoad-ˌeating n. and adj.
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1791 Earl Mornington in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. v. 7 Some verses which I took down..as being the excess of toad-eating.
1831 J. Jekyll Let. 18 July in Corr. (1894) ix. 273 Puffing himself in newspapers, and toad-eating Princes and Ministers.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 133 ‘Decidedly,’ said the toad-eating Flamwell.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xlv A real sister has no motive for such toad-eating.
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