Toady

toady
    n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
         personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {toady}, {crawler},
         {lackey}, {ass-kisser}]
    v 1: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
         kowtowing to his boss" [syn: {fawn}, {toady}, {truckle},
         {bootlick}, {kowtow}, {kotow}, {suck up}]
    

Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. {Toadies}. [Shortened from toadeater.]
   1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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            Before I had been standing at the window five
            minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were
            all toadies and humbugs.              --Dickens.
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   2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Toadying}.]
   To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "toady":
      apple-polish, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher,
      backslapper, bend the knee, bootlick, bootlicker, bow,
      bow and scrape, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, cower,
      crawl, creature, creep, cringe, cringer, crouch, dupe, fawn,
      fawner, flatter, flatterer, flunky, follow, footlicker, grovel,
      groveler, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kneel, kowtow,
      kowtower, lackey, led captain, lick the dust, lickspit,
      lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave,
      spaniel, stooge, stoop, suck, sycophant, tag, tail, timeserver,
      toad, toadeat, toadeater, tool, trail, truckle, truckler,
      tufthunter, yes-man