toadying

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Toadying}.]
   To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "toadying":
      abject, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly,
      bootlicking, brown-nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
      fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling,
      handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation,
      kowtowing, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant,
      obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism,
      prostrate, prostration, sniveling, sponging, sycophancy,
      sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadyish, toadyism,
      truckling, tufthunting