toadynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtəʊ.di/us/ˈtoʊ.di/disapprovinga person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- arse-licker
- bow and scrape idiom
- brown-nose
- crawler
- creep
- fawn
- flatter
- flattery
- flattery will get you nowhere idiom
- glad-handing
- grovel
- idealize
- left-handed compliment
- massage
- massage sb's ego idiom
- obsequious
- play up to sb
- schmooze
- slobber
- unctuous
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toady
verb [ I ] ukus
She was always toadying to the boss.