1. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
   "The boss was surrounded by toadies who agreed with everything he said";
   - sycophant, crawler, lackey, lacquey

1. Attempt to gain favour through obsequious behaviour or flattery
   "He is always toadying to his boss";
   - fawn, truckle, bootlick [informal], kowtow, kotow, suck up [informal], smoodge [Austral, informal]

Sounds like: toad, toed, toad

Derived forms: toadies, toadying, toadied

Type of: adulator, blandish, flatter, flatterer

Encyclopedia: Toady