Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to toady
Participle: toadied
Gerund: toadying
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | toady |
| you | toady |
| he;she;it | toadies |
| we | toady |
| you | toady |
| they | toady |
Perfect
| I | have toadied |
| you | have toadied |
| he;she;it | has toadied |
| we | have toadied |
| you | have toadied |
| they | have toadied |
Past
| I | toadied |
| you | toadied |
| he;she;it | toadied |
| we | toadied |
| you | toadied |
| they | toadied |
Pluperfect
| I | had toadied |
| you | had toadied |
| he;she;it | had toadied |
| we | had toadied |
| you | had toadied |
| they | had toadied |
Future
| I | will toady |
| you | will toady |
| he;she;it | will toady |
| we | will toady |
| you | will toady |
| they | will toady |
Future Perfect
| I | will have toadied |
| you | will have toadied |
| he;she;it | will have toadied |
| we | will have toadied |
| you | will have toadied |
| they | will have toadied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | toady |
| you | toady |
| he;she;it | toady |
| we | toady |
| you | toady |
| they | toady |
Perfect
| I | have toadied |
| you | have toadied |
| he;she;it | have toadied |
| we | have toadied |
| you | have toadied |
| they | have toadied |
Imperfect
| I | toadied |
| you | toadied |
| he;she;it | toadied |
| we | toadied |
| you | toadied |
| they | toadied |
Pluperfect
| I | had toadied |
| you | had toadied |
| he;she;it | had toadied |
| we | had toadied |
| you | had toadied |
| they | had toadied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would toady |
| you | would toady |
| he;she;it | would toady |
| we | would toady |
| you | would toady |
| they | would toady |
Perfect
| I | would have toadied |
| you | would have toadied |
| he;she;it | would have toadied |
| we | would have toadied |
| you | would have toadied |
| they | would have toadied |
Imperative
| you | toady |
| we | Let's toady |
| you | toady |
Verbs conjugated like 'toady'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'toady'
toad,
body,
boody,
coadd,
doody,
goad,
howdy,
load,
poddy,
ready,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From a shortening of toadeater + -y.
Sample Sentences
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But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so. [1857, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:]
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He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself. [1911, Daniel Chaucer [pseudonym; Ford Madox Ford], The Simple Life Limited:]
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I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore. I had toadied to her when she was the awesome duenna of my darling, and a groveling something still persisted in my attitude toward her. [1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 85:]