toadyism, n. 1. sycophancy, sycophantism, flattery, fawning, truckling, wheedling, toadeating, tuft-hunting, lip-homage, mouth-honor, unctuousness, Inf. soft soap, Inf. bootlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, SI. brown-nosing, Rare, blandiloquence, Obs., Rare. blandation, Obs., Rare, blandiloquy.
2. slavishness, servility, obsequiousness, subservience, Obs. vernility; submissiveness, docility, unassertiveness, compliance, acquiescence, deference, tractabil-ity, tractableness; prostration, obeisance, abjection, abjectness, self-abasement; groveling, crawling, creeping, crouching, slithering; squirming, cringing, cowering; whining, whimpering, sniveling,
to-and-fro, adv., adj. 1. back-and-forth, side-to- side, up-and-down, in-and-out, zigzag, seesaw, this way and that; alternating, reciprocal. -n. 2. alternation, coming and going, ebb and flow, flux and reflux, systole and diastole; seesawing, teetering, teeter-tottering.
toast1, v. heat or heat up, warm or warm up, brown, cook lightly, grill, roast.
toast2, n. 1. salutation, pledge health; cheers, cheerio, skoal, your health, Fr. santi, Fr. salut, Latin, prosit, Hebrew. Vchayim, Yiddish, mazel tov; happy days, good luck, Inf. here's looking at you, SI. here's mud in your eye, Inf bottoms up, SI. down the hatch. -v. 2. propose a toast, pledge; drink a toast, drink to [s.o.'s] health, clink glasses,
toastmaster, n. symposiarch, master or mistress of ceremonies, Inf emcee, Inf M.C.; host, hostess, introducer; raconteur, storyteller, anecdotist; joker, jokester, quipster; moderator, interlocutor, coordinator, facilitator; chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, chair.
tocsin, n. signal, alarm bell, alarm, alert, warning
or alarm gun, fire alarm, siren, whistle, horn, foghorn, Archaic, alarum; red light, red flag, danger signal, yellow light or flag, flashing light; cry of distress, call for help, SOS, May Day.
today, n. 1. this present day, this very day.
2. the present, now, this moment, this time, this age, this period, this era. -adv. 3. on this present day, on this very day, Fr. aujourd'hui, Ger. heute.
4. at the present time, in these days, in this day and age.
toddle, v. dodder, falter, wobble, move unsteadily; hobble, limp, hitch, halt, pause, hesitate; totter, Chiefly U.S. teeter, Chiefly U.S. teeter-totter, sway,
to-do, n. Informal, ado, bustle, hustle and bustle, hustle, flurry, flutter, buzzing or flitting about, scurry, hurry-scurry, running around, doing, Sometimes Facetious. do; busyness, stir, activity, action, motion,
movement; fuss, fuss and feathers, bother, pother, trouble; much ado about nothing, tempest in a teapot, storm in a teacup, Inf. foofaraw, SI. flap, Inf. stew; confusion, excitement, furor, commotion, hubbub, noise; agitation, Archaic, pucker, tempest, storm, disquiet, unrest; disturbance, tumult, turmoil, tumultousness, uproar, hurly-burly, hurly, brouhaha.