Toady: alternatives and connections

A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

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To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

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One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.

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One who flatters.

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.

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One who grovels; an abject wretch.

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One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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One who fawns; a sycophant.

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A toady.

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One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

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A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

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The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degre…

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The same as Kotow.

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An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

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An informer; a talebearer.

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A small wheel or caster.

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