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Flattery with a job title, usually attached to someone's boss.

means A person who sucks up to someone powerful through constant flattery and obedience, hoping to gain favor.

from From 'toad-eater,' a phrase for the fake assistant of a traveling quack doctor who would publicly eat a (supposedly poisonous) toad so the doctor could then 'cure' him with a bogus remedy — proving the medicine's power to onlookers. The toad-eater was willing to do disgusting, degrading things purely to serve his master's scheme, and the word shrank over time to 'toady,' keeping that core of servile, stomach-turning obedience.

origin
short for toad-eater, a quack's assistant
original job
swallowed fake toads to be cured on cue
modern form
laughs loudest at the worst jokes
key trait
agrees before you finish the sentence
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