Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Toady \Toad"y\, n.; pl. {Toadies}. [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. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.