詞語：toady
toady是什麼意思
簡明英漢詞典
toady
[5tEudi]
n.
諂媚者, 拍馬屁的人
v.
諂媚, 拍馬屁
美國傳統詞典[雙解]
toady
toad.y
AHD:[t?「d?]
D.J.[6toudi8]
K.K.[6todi]
n.（名詞）
【複數】 toad.ies
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
諂媚者：出於私利而吹捧或尊敬他人的人；拍馬者
v.tr.intr.（及物動詞和不及物動詞）
toad.ied[t?「d?d] toad.y.ing， toad.ies[t?「d?z]
To be a toady to or behave like a toady.See Synonyms at fawn 1
拍…的馬屁：向…拍馬或表現得像個拍馬者參見 fawn1
語源
From toad
源自 toad
註釋
A toady is not a pleasant individual, and the origin of the word makes being a toady even less pleasant. Toady is obviously derived from the word toad. The -y suffix can have diminutive force, and the earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady (now obsolete), 「a little or young toad,」 illustrates this force. The sense we know has nothing to do with baby toads but rather with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could cast out poison. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat a toad or pretend to eat one and then remove the poison from the attendant. Such an attendant is obviously a type of person who would do anything, and thus toadeater (first recorded 1629) was the perfect name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean 「sycophant」 and the verb toady could mean 「to act like a toady to someone.」
拍馬者並不是一個討人喜歡的人，這個詞的來源使做拍馬者這種作法更加不令人喜歡。Toady 很顯然是從 toad 這個詞衍生而來。 後輟-y 可以有一種指小的效力， Toady 這個詞最早有記載(1690年左右）的含義「一隻小或幼年蟾蜍」（現已廢棄）正說明了這種效力。 我們現在知道的含義與年幼的蟾蜍沒有什麼關係，而與某些宣稱能夠驅毒的冒牌醫生或江湖郎中的某些做法有關。當時人們認為蟾蜍有毒，所以這些江湖朗中會叫一個手下人吃下一隻蟾蜍或假裝吃下一隻蟾蜍，然後把毒物從他的手下人身體中驅除出去。很明顯，這樣一個幫手是一種什麼事都會做的人，這樣，用toadeater （最早記載於1629年）這個詞來稱呼奉承拍馬的寄生者是再合適不過了。 Toadeater 和從它衍生而來的動詞 toadeat 影響了作為名詞或動詞的 toad 和作為名詞 toady 的含義， 於是二個名詞都可以理解為「拍馬者」的意思，而動詞toady 有「在某人面前像一個拍馬者一樣行動」的意思
現代英漢詞典
toady
[5tEJdI]
vt., vi.
-ied, -ying
奉承；巴結；諂媚
現代英漢綜合大辭典
toady
[5tEudi]
n.
拍馬屁的人
詞性變化
toady
[5tEudi]
vt., vi.
諂媚, 奉承
繼承用法
toadyish
adj.
toadyishly
adv.
toadyism
n.
美國傳統詞典
toady
toad.y
AHD:[t?「d?]
D.J.[6toudi8]
K.K.[6todi]
n.
pl. toad.ies
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.
v.tr.intr.
toad.ied[t?「d?d] toad.y.ing, toad.ies[t?「d?z]
To be a toady to or behave like a toady.See Synonyms at fawn 1
語源
From toad
註釋
A toady is not a pleasant individual, and the origin of the word makes being a toady even less pleasant. Toady is obviously derived from the word toad. The -y suffix can have diminutive force, and the earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady (now obsolete), 「a little or young toad,」 illustrates this force. The sense we know has nothing to do with baby toads but rather with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could cast out poison. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat a toad or pretend to eat one and then remove the poison from the attendant. Such an attendant is obviously a type of person who would do anything, and thus toadeater (first recorded 1629) was the perfect name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean 「sycophant」 and the verb toady could mean 「to act like a toady to someone.」
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