Behave vs Toady - What's the difference?
behave | toady |
(label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
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, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
* 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
* Charles Dickens
(archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
To behave like a toady (to someone).
As verbs the difference between behave and toady
is that behave is (label) to conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way while toady is to behave like a toady (to someone).As a noun toady is
a sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.behave
English
Verb
- those that behaved themselves manfully
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- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
Derived terms
* behave oneselfExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordstoady
English
Noun
(toadies)- But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies , the scepticism of the professional poet.
- "Go on, Hiram, show 'em what you can do," urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.
- Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.
- (Sir Walter Scott)