Toady

(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.

(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.

(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

手打:特雷弗

• When I come into the country, she says (for she has a great deal of humour), I leave my toady, Miss Briggs, at home. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miss Toady explained presently, with that simplicity which distinguishes all her conduct. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• My brothers are my toadies here, my dear, and a pretty pair they are! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

手打:玛吉