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toadeater

[ tohd-ee-ter ]

noun

  1. a toady.


toadeater

/ ˈ³Ùəʊ»åËŒ¾±Ë³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. a rare word for toady
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of toadeater1

1565–75; toad + eater ( def )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of toadeater1

C17: originally a mountebank's assistant who would pretend to eat toads (believed to be poisonous), hence a servile flatterer, toady
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Example Sentences

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

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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.

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They rise in the small hours of the night, to go their round of the city, to have doors slammed in their faces by slaves, to swallow as best they may the compliments of "Dog," "Toadeater," and the like.

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

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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.

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