toady

English - Turkish

Definition of toady in English Turkish dictionary: {f} dalkavukluk et; yağcı; dalkavukluk etmek; dalkavuk
Aristo Makedon monarşisine dalkavukluk ediyordu. - Aristotle was toadying up to the Macedonian monarchy.; yağ çekmek; {f} (to) (-e) dalkavukluk etmek, kuyruk sallamak, yağ çekmek; (isim) dalkavuk; toadyismdalkavukluk; şakşakçı; yalaka; kuyruk sallayıcı; yaltaklanmak
toady to: kuyruk sallamak

English - English

Definition of toady in English English dictionary: To behave like a toady (to someone); A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage
But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.; {f} flatter in the hope of gaining favor, fawn upon; disapproval If you refer to someone as a toady, you disapprove of them because they flatter or are pleasant towards an important or powerful person in the hope of getting some advantage from them; A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant; a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; To behave like a toady (to someone.); disapproval If you say that someone is toadying to an important or powerful person, you disapprove of them because they are flattering or being pleasant towards that person in the hope of getting some advantage from them. They came backstage afterward, cooing and toadying to him. toadies someone who pretends to like an important person and does things for them, so that that person will help them - used to show disapproval. toadied toadying toadies to pretend to like an important person and do things for them, so that they will help you - used to show disapproval toady to; A coarse, rustic woman; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"; To fawn upon with mean sycophancy; {i} flatterer, sycophant, parasite
A toady: bootlick
toadies: plural of toady