toadies

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. Toadies. [Shortened from toadeater.]

1.A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. [1913 Webster]

Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.— Dickens.[1913 Webster]

2.A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

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