Synonyms of the word

toady

• n. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
• n. (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).

adulator

• n. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates.

blandish

• v. (transitive) To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
• v. (transitive) To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.

bootlick

• v. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
• n. (US) A toady or sycophant.

crawler

• n. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
• n. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
• n. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
• n. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
• n. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

fawn

• n. A young deer.
• n. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
• n. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
• adj. Of the fawn colour.
• v. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
• v. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive, of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

flatter

• n. A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
• n. A flat-faced fulling hammer.
• n. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
• n. Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
• adj. comparative form of flat: more flat.
• v. To compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
• v. To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
• v. To portray someone to advantage.
• v. To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.

flatterer

• n. One who flatters.

kotow

• n. Alternative spelling of kowtow.
• v. Alternative spelling of kowtow.

kowtow

• v. (intransitive) To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To bow very deeply.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To act in a very submissive manner.
• n. The act of kowtowing.

lackey

• n. A footman, a liveried male servant.
• n. A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
• v. (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.

sycophant

• n. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
• n. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
• n. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
• v. (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
• v. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

truckle

• n. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
• n. A small wheel of cheese.
• v. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.