Meaning of toad-eater | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Indeed, as to the dowager, she seems to have⟳ no greater joys than E.O. and a toad-eater can give⟳ her.”

“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.”

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