toadyishadj.
/ˈtəʊdɪɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdiɪʃ/ Characteristic of or resembling a toady; meanly servile.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]
go-by-ground?a1300
thrall1398
abjectc1430
manly?c1430
servicious1440
serviceable1483
servile1537
tame1563
slavish1565
demiss1572
submissive1572
cringing1579
fawning1585
incrouching?1593
vassal1594
scraping1599
obsequious1602
spaniel1606
observing1609
deprostrate1610
supplea1616
vernile1623
shrugging1629
wormy1640
compliable1641
thrall-like1641
obeisant1642
inservient1646
truckling1656
cringeling1693
benecking1705
subservient1714
footman-like1776
bingeing1805
sidling1821
toadying1863
crawlsome1904
toadyish1909
crawling1941
ass-kissing1942
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]
fikingc1230
papelarda1500
gnathonical1540
clawing1574
pickthank1575
slavering1575
claw-back1577
courting1580
fawning1585
adulatory1587
insinuating1592
insinuative1592
scraping1599
adulatorious1612
men-pleasing1615
pickthanking1621
sycophantical1632
gnathonic1637
insinuanta1639
sycophantizing1640
ingratiating1642
led1672
sycophanting1674
sycophantly1680
sycophanta1684
sycophantica1698
pickthankly1702
assiduous1725
foot-licking1786
tuft-hunting1789
sycophantish1821
favour-currying1831
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
creepy-crawly1890
slauming1904
toadyish1909
ass-licking1940
ass-kissing1942
brown-nosing1946
arse-licking1950
sucky1991
1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1955 M. Cooper in H. Van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman 50 A particularly toadyish begging letter.
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn vi. 57 Only Marya, toadyish with her murmurs of ‘such delicious coffee’, accepted the offer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1909- to suck etc orange
- to suck face
- to suck in
- to suck in with one's mother's milk
- to suck it up
- to suck my orange
- to suck off
- to suck one's face
- to suck one's fill
- to suck one's teeth
- to suck out
- to suck out at one's fingers' ends
- to suck out at one's own fingers' ends
- to suck out of one's finger
- to suck out of one's fingers' ends
- to wipe a person's nose
- to wipe an esp a smile off a person's or one's face
- to wipe an expression off a person's or one's face
- to wipe off a person's or one's face
- to wipe off the map
- to wipe off the slate
- to wipe one's boots on
- to wipe one's hands of
- to wipe one's lips of
- to wipe one's nose on one's sleeve