Toadeater

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A toady.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant or flatterer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A mountebank's boy who ate, or pretended to eat, toads (supposed to be poison-ous), in order to give his master an opportunity to show his skill in expelling poison.
  • A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a toady.
  • Word Usage
    "So you may guess that the matter on which he had sent for me was one of the gravest national import - Prince Albert, our saintly Bertie the Beauty, wanted a new aide-de-camp, or equerry, or toadeater-extraordinary, and nothing would do but our new Commander must set all else aside to see the thing was done properly."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flatterer    toady    fawner