Toady vs Fulminate - What's the difference?
toady | fulminate |
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).
(figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
(figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
* De Quincey
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
* 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 235:
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
As nouns the difference between toady and fulminate
is that toady is a sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage while fulminate is .As a verb toady
is to behave like a toady (to someone).toady
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)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* toadyishVerb
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*fulminate
English
(wikipedia fulminate)Verb
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
- the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.
Synonyms
* (verbal attack) berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilifyNoun
(en noun)- On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.
