toady

hännystelijä, mielistelijä, makeilija

hännystellä A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
1929, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:A Room of Ones Own|A Room of One's Own'', Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61

But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.

"Go on, Hiram, show 'em what you can do," urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.

Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.

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