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toad-eater

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toad-eater (複数形 toad-eaters)

Alternative form of toadeater
- 1793, Jane Austen, Lesley Castle:
  It is very hard that a pretty Woman is never to be told she is so by any one of her own Sex, without that person 's being suspected to be either her determined Enemy, or her professed Toad-eater.
- 1853 April 23, “Concerning Toadies”, in Pen and Pencil, volume 1, number 17, page 532:
  This sort of toadies are arrant loafers, and are like the locusts of the scriptures, with this difference, that whereas clouds of locusts were necessary to do any serious damage a few or even one hungry toady has been known to fasten upon a man of limited means and devour his substance utterly, so as to reduce him to the same negative condition of prosperity as the toad-eater himself.
- 1873, John Doran, A Lady of the Last Century (Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu), page 53:
  Indeed, as to the dowager, she seems to have no greater joys than E.O. and a toad-eater can give her.
- 1891, Charles James Wills, The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, page 70:
  Wolff, my dear, is the toad-eater. In the old days every great man kept a toad-eater; sometimes his functions were highly paid— Wolff 's are, I fancy.

toadeater

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toad-eater, toad eater

語源

toad +‎ eater, said to allude to an old alleged practice among mountebanks, who would hire a boy to eat (または pretend to eat) toads, which many had considered poisonous. The toadeater (または "toady") would writhe in pain, until the quack gave him some "medicine", and then try to impress upon the crowd that the boy was cured. Compare toady.

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toadeater (複数形 toadeaters)

A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant or flatterer.
- 1819, J. Wilson, Complete Dictionary of Astrology "Horary Questions", Of Theft.
  a chaplain, tutor, toadeater, or some superior servant
- 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776:
  You're too zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself.
- 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1204533024, book III, page 19:
  Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toad-eaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toad-eaters more.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for toadeater in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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toad-eaterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

斎藤和英大辞典での「toad-eater」の意味

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