0 a person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies.
1 to praise and be artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
She had her toadies, minor officials in Government offices who ran about putting through little jobs on her behalf.
She caricatures the cowardly toadies whose views changed along with the politics of the times.
They are all grimly obsequious, like boys toadying to teachers.
He spent his holiday toadying up to rich relatives on Martha's Vineyard.
They have only to humour and placate the individuals involved, fawning and toadying appropriately, and all will be well.
A common theme was to represent politicians as snakes in the grass or toadies.
