toadeater

American  

[tohd-ee-ter] / ˈtoʊdˌi tər /

noun

1. a toady.

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toadeater British  

/ ˈtəʊdˌiːtə /

noun

1. a rare word for toady

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Etymology

Origin of toadeater

1565–75; toad + eater ( def. )

Example Sentences

You are by appointment literary toadeater to greatness and taster to the court.

From Project Gutenberg

It is true she suffered no symptom of this satisfaction to escape her; on the contrary, she compassionated the "poor dear things," that thought themselves "the world," in such a place, and smiled with angelic pity at their sweet simplicity; but Haggerstone saw through all these disguises, and read her real sentiments, as a practised toadeater never fails to do, where only affectation is the pretence.

From Project Gutenberg

For in the achievements of the table, what toadeater besides can be compared with them?

From Project Gutenberg

At five she had to attend her colleague, Madame Schwellenberg, a hateful old toadeater, as illiterate as a chambermaid, as proud as a Whole German Chapter, rude, peevish, unable to bear solitude, unable to conduct herself with common decency in society.

From Project Gutenberg

When they came, he presented them to a lady, dressed foreign, as a princess of the house of' Brandenburg: she had a toadeater, and there was another man, who gave himself for a count.

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