TOADY
Toad"y, n.; pl. Toadies. Etym: [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens.
2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.
TOADY
Toad"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.]
Defn: To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
TOADYISM
Toad"y*ism, n.
Defn: The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
TOAST
Toast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.] Etym:
[OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast.
See Torrid.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.