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Definition of Toadied
1. toady [v] - See also: toady
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadied
Literary usage of Toadied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Uncle Sam, Banker, 1910-1940 by James Arthur Fulton (1915)
"They were not toadied to or worshipped as they had been before, but they were a
great deal more useful. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"... and made up to him for his great possessions. No accusation, however, could
be further from the mark. If either of the two men toadied the other it was ..."
3. Links in My Life on Land and Sea by James William Gambier (1907)
"For he never toadied. Of what he taught us it is only necessary to say that,
beyond navigation and nautical astronomy, plain and spherical trigonometry and ..."
4. The Three Clerks: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1903)
"They toadied Mrs. Val—poor young women, how little should they be blamed for this
fault, ... they toadied Mrs. Val, and therefore Mrs. Val bore with them; ..."
5. The Life and Times of Queen Victoria by Robert Wilson (1891)
""Then," writes Mr. Harris to Lord Malmesbury, " I returned to Paris, and called
on Mrs. Howard, toadied and nattered her, stating that I was in a great ..."
6. A life-long story: or, Am I my sister's keeper? Facts and phases for the by One of themselves (1859)
"If they were "well to do in the world," they were invited to dine, toadied to
repletion, and solicited to stand sponsor to the last little Redman ..."
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