[prajop] (v) EN: curry favour with (s.o.) ; fawn on ; by sycophantic ; play the toady ; ingratiate oneself with ; make up to FR: chercher à gagner les faveurs (de qqn.) ; faire la fête à qqn. ; flatter (servilement) ; lécher les bottes (fam.) ; être obséquieux ; flagorner (litt.) ; se faire bien voir de qqn. ; passer de la pommade à qqn. (fam.)
[こびへつらう, kobihetsurau] (v5u, vi) to toady; to be obsequious [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. {Toadies}. [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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Before I had been standing at the window five
minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
all toadies and humbugs. --Dickens.
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2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toadying}.]
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toady
n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {toady}, {crawler},
{lackey}, {ass-kisser}]
v 1: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: {fawn}, {toady}, {truckle},
{bootlick}, {kowtow}, {kotow}, {suck up}]
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