A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
"But who is she, can you tell me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have never heard of old Mother Montreville?"
A coarse, rustic woman.
Diminutive of toad.
To behave like a toady (toward someone).
He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself.
To behave like a toady toward (someone).
toadlike
The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance.
From a shortening of toadeater + -y.
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But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so.