0 past simple and past participle of toady --
1 to praise and be artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them: --
She imagined him in his gallery, toadying to his rich clients.
She was always toadying to the boss.
He spent his holiday toadying up to rich relatives on Martha's Vineyard.
They are all grimly obsequious, like boys toadying to teachers.
He was unused to people not toadying to him.
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