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TOADEATER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of TOADEATER is toady. www.merriam-webster.com
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toadeater - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
said to allude to an old alleged practice among mountebanks, who would hire a boy to eat (or pretend to eat) toads, which many had considered poisonous. en.wiktionary.org
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toad eater - CandiceHern.com
toad eater Flatterer; toady. This glossary term is categorized as Slang SHARE click to expand View the Full Regency World Glossary candicehern.com
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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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WORD OF THE WEEK: toad-eater - Byline Times
Toads have long been considered poisonous. Not only that, but a few centuries ago they were held to be among the standard tools of ... bylinetimes.com
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toadying - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant. tr. & intr.v. toad·ied, toad·y·ing, toad·ies ... Word History: The first toadies ... ahdictionary.com
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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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Toad-eater - World Wide Words
As a result, toad-eater came to be a nickname for a servile assistant to a showman. By the following century it had generalised into a term for ... www.worldwidewords.org
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TOADEATER Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
a hateful old toadeater, as illiterate as a chambermaid, as proud as a Whole German Chapter, rude, peevish, unable to bear solitude. www.dictionary.com
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toad-eater, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun toad-eater is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for toad-eater is from 1629, in a diary ... www.oed.com
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TOADEATER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
a mountebank's assistant who would pretend to eat toads (believed to be poisonous), hence a servile flatterer. www.collinsdictionary.com
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Toadies - History Today
No fair in 17th or 18th-century England was complete without a toad-eater or 'Toady': a man who swallowed live toads for his living. www.historytoday.com
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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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