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toad-eater
toad-eater (ˈtəʊdˌiːtə(r)) 1. One who eats toads; orig. the attendant of a charlatan, employed to eat or pretend to eat toads (held to be poisonous) to enable his master to exhibit his skill in expelling poison.1629 J. Rous Diary 45, I inquired of him if William Utting the toade-eater..did not once ... Oxford English Dictionary
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toad-eat
toad-eat, v. rare. (ˈtəʊdˌiːt) [Back-formation from toad-eater.] trans. To flatter, fawn upon (a person); to toady. Also intr. So ˈtoad-ˌeating vbl. n. and ppl. a.1766 Lady S. Lennox in Life & Lett. (1901) I. 199, I have got Charles into such order, that..he toad eats me beyond all conception. 1767 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Thomas Walker (died 1748)
Horace Walpole called him "a kind of toad-eater to Sir Robert Walpole and Lord Godolphin". wikipedia.org
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John Gilchrist (linguist)
host of sacerdotal inquisitors in Europe, and every iniquitous judge, corrupt ruler, venal corporation, rotten borough, slavish editor, or Jacobitical toad-eater wikipedia.org
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claw-back
▪ I. ˈclaw-back 1. a. One who claws another's back (see claw v. 4); a flatterer, sycophant, parasite, ‘toady’.1549 Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 64 These flattering clawbackes are originall rotes of all mischyue. 1589 Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxv. 125 [It] doth make thy Foes to smile, Thy friends... Oxford English Dictionary
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toad
▪ I. toad, n. (təʊd) Forms: α. 1 tádiᵹe, tádie. β. 1–5 tadde, (pl. 1 -an, 2–4 en, 3–7 -es). γ. ? 3, 4–6 north. tade, 5– Sc. taid, 9 north. dial. teäde, tead, ted, tyed. δ. 4–7 tode, 5–6 toode, 6 tood, 6–7 toade, 7– toad. [OE. tádiᵹe, of unknown origin and unusual form, has no cognates in the other l... Oxford English Dictionary
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eater
eater (ˈiːtə(r)) Also 1–5 eter(e, 5 etar. [f. eat v. + -er.] 1. a. One who eats; also with up, a consumer, devourer, and with object n. prefixed, as bread-eater, flesh-eater.a 1000 Prov. 18 (Bosw.) Eteras, commessatores. 1340 Ayenb. 47 Ase byeþ þe mochele drinkeres and eteres. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg.... Oxford English Dictionary
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lozenge
lozenge, n. (ˈlɒzɪndʒ) Forms: 4–7 loseng(e, 5–6 losang(e, losing(e, 5 losyngye, (losynge, lesyng, lozingge), 5–7 lozeng, 6–7 lossenge, loosing, 6–8 lozange, (8 lozinge), 7– lozenge. [a. OF. losenge, losange (mod.F. losange) = Sp. losanje, Catal. llosange, It. lozanga; perh. a derivative of the word ... Oxford English Dictionary
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