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)

Noun

(toddies)

Hot toddy.

(label) The sweet sap from any of several tropical trees fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}