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Flunky vs Toady - What's the difference?

flunky | toady |

As nouns the difference between flunky and toady

is that flunky is a sycophant; a servant or hanger-on who is kept for their loyalty or muscle rather than their intellect while toady is a sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.

As a verb toady is

to behave like a toady (to someone).

flunky

English

Alternative forms

* flunkee * flunkey

Noun

(flunkies)
  • A sycophant; a servant or hanger-on who is kept for their loyalty or muscle rather than their intellect.

    • toady

    English

    Noun

    (toadies)
  • A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
  • * 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61
    • 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.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • "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.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.
  • (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * toadyish

    Verb

  • To behave like a toady (to someone).

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