GRE/oxford_api/json/1027_toady.json

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{"id": "toady", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "toady", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "toadyish", "text": "toadyish"}, {"id": "toadyism", "text": "toadyism"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 19th century: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the efficacy of the charlatan's remedy"], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "plural", "text": "Plural", "type": "Number"}], "inflectedForm": "toadies"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/toady_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8t\u0259\u028adi"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "fish", "text": "Fish"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1058020.006", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "obsequious_person", "text": "Obsequious_Person"}], "shortDefinitions": ["person who behaves obsequiously to someone important"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "sycophant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "obsequious person"}, {"language": "en", "text": "creep"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crawler"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fawner"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flatterer"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flunkey"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lackey"}, {"language": "en", "text": "truckler"}, {"language": "en", "text": "groveller"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doormat"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lickspittle"}, {"language": "en", "text": "kowtower"}, {"language": "en", "text": "minion"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hanger-on"}, {"language": "en", "text": "leech"}, {"language": "en", "text": "puppet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stooge"}, {"language": "en", "text": "spaniel"}, {"language": "en", "text": "Uriah Heep"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "toady", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0014949.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["a pufferfish."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "fish", "text": "Fish"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1058020.010", "regions": [{"id": "australian", "text": "Australian"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "toady"}, {"derivatives": [{"id": "toadyish", "text": "toadyish"}, {"id": "toadyism", "text": "toadyism"}], "entries": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "toadies"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "toadying"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "toadied"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/toady_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8t\u0259\u028adi"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["act in an obsequious way"], "examples": [{"text": "she imagined him toadying to his rich clients"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1058020.016", "shortDefinitions": ["act in obsequious way"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "be obsequious towards"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be servile towards"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be sycophantic towards"}, {"language": "en", "text": "grovel to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "kowtow to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "abase oneself to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "demean oneself to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bow and scrape to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "prostrate oneself to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "truckle to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make up to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "play up to"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dance attendance on"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fawn on"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ingratiate oneself with"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rub up the right way"}, {"language": "en", "text": "curry favour with"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flatter"}, {"language": "en", "text": "court"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "toady", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0014949.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "toady"}], "type": "headword", "word": "toady"}], "word": "toady"}