Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Toady

Toady , noun

[Shortened from toadeater.]

1.
A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. — Dickens
2.
A coarse, rustic woman. [Rare] — Sir W. Scott

Toady , transitive verb

To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.