Desi leArnt a new word TOADY!

From Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.


toady

NOUN: One who flatters another excessively: adulator, courtier, flatterer, sycophant. Informal : apple-polisher.
UPdated by Desi: ball-carrier

VERB: To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior: bootlick, cringe, fawn, grovel, kowtow, slaver, truckle. Informal : apple-polish, brownnose, cotton. Slang : suck up. Idioms: curry favor, dance attendance, kiss someone's feet, lick someone's boots.
UPdated by Howsy, minus his 'EmisSION!:( Angkat bola!:).

To any Journalist well trained (by seethrough like Desi, mayhaps?), the important thing in Reporting is to attribute the SOURCE of one's information. As I said recently, get to the Horse's Mouth, failing which, get to Da Joeky, fauiling which ...Aiyah, use your Imagination-lah! Why so cheong hee, one? (More elaboration on this phrase later, kenORknot?)

So the first named source above is a "Dick" - Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

A second attribution is mGf based in lundun, via http://howsy.blogspot.com. To see the CONTEXT, and Da RATIONALE, of his teaching us Cambrideg English this morning, please pay him (her? s/he I'm not sure of the PROnoun, but I hesitate to use "it" because s/he has one Miss Medusa for a f(R)iend!

See, A blogger's delite! You can digress, become aggressive, and no one throws an
I:
S:
A:....(4-letter word of the unfair kind:)
at thee, him or me!

Yes, besides Catsville, I have journo -- or pseudon-journo? -- friends East and West, North and South of Malaysia. If you drive, jest follow the sign "UTARA" -- and if you remain as Patient as Job, you will surely meet one of journo-mGf in the plural. Talkingg about Patience, has Makna recieved its meaningfool cheque of RM1.07billion; can one ER please check?

Talking about checks and balances, we have many sub-editors sleeping on the job. I remember one day a senior editor was writing about Malaysia's GDP and GNP and all the Ps -- dont't know about AP< it was not a hot potato then...), and she mentioned Malaysia's GDP in the vicinity of RMxxxmilion. Yes, TOADS!

There is a difference of three significant "zeroes" between an "m" and a "b"! Butt ne'er mind, you cannot touch a senior editor's copy -- wrong, right, or leftist!

Okay, coming/going back to:
Why so cheong hee, one?,

this phrase came to mind/e when I smilingly recalled a visit to http://allofhelen.blogspot.com, and she made me turn ...
first pink
then red
then lobster red

yesterdae,
when I taught her -- free summore -- a s'x letter word:

skunk'd.

For CONTEXT and Da Rationale, vist her before she comes back to me howling des-TROY!


She also sent me up/down to Cloud Number 9 (helen doesn't no my fave no. is SE7EN! nyet), with these words:

No, it wasn't B-G's "And words are all I have, To take your ''Art away..."

butt this/these:

"...BTW, I heard DPM is a die-hard fan of 'Skunked'.

You are a smart person (how I know? coz many things in your blog I need more than a dictionary to understand.. :-P) so, can you tell me why petrol cost RM1.92 per litre when good ol distilled or mineral water cost RM1.00 for 500ml?? lol..."

Helen maketh me blush again saying she needs more than a "Dick" (Moby? Mobil? Shell? PETronas!Good choice, this lust one will give you a discount after they used up all their RM36billion net profit!) I made a resolution tomorrow ne'er enter allofhelen's territory for ... until snow flakes descend on Fu Rong.

Now a piece of nu'es, for by now you I.Cowws, you know I have been a press-man for some 30 years, rite? And that's a rhetoric Q! so I must end with some news, yes, this word has an ASS sound even if it's in the singular. And the noun is always SING-ular, like a spinster-lah ...So no sentences like "The news are so awesome..."

From your besta-in-engrish nupaper, The Star, page 15:

DESIDERATA's Toady Challengia:
Do you sight any TOADS among the players?
PRIZE: You don't have to stand in the C'rner with a D'nce Cap!

PS to yesterdae's lunchtime ChallengiA:

Only ONE mGf from Catsville won one barrel of tehtarik for her Attempt -- why nowadaes my ER are SO LAZY not accepting my Challengia? No fun-d isit?

The ANSWER to that f in fSpeaking is that I made a TYPO mistake,-- called the Printer's Devil, butt you eGen won't understand...) started to erase the word, but by GOoD' grace, like that (in)famous Maradona's "It's the Hand of GOD" goal!, I saw the irony of this MISSspelt word, since somoone is talking COCK! My ER, is this a fowl word? If yes, please replace it with another animal -- BUL:L:, it's a s'x letter word now!

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Friday March 3, 2006

Samy names his team

KUALA LUMPUR: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said he is backing Datuk G. Palanivel to be his deputy to ensure the party has a capable successor when he decides to call it quits.

The Works Minister said he needed a deputy who could work with him to improve the welfare of the Indian community.

Palanivel, the Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister, would take on incumbent Datuk S. Subramaniam for the Number Two post when MIC members go to the polls in June.

“As the president, it is my duty to ensure there is a capable successor to the leadership at the right time,” Samy Vellu said after attending the welcoming reception for Iranian President Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Parliament Square here yesterday.

He said he also favoured Datuk S. Veerasingam, Tan Sri K.S. Nijhar and secretary-general Datuk S. Sothinathan to take the three vice-president posts, confirming a report in The Star on Wednesday that he had told state liaison chiefs and several central committee members at a closed-door meeting that he endorsed the candidacies of Palanivel and these three leaders.

Veerasingam, the deputy Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Nijhar, who is Subang MP, and Palanivel are incumbent vice-presidents.

Samy Vellu said it was important for the president to have a line-up that could work with him as a team, adding that he chose the leaders based on their capability and the feedback he received from grassroots members.

He said it was also important to have a combination of leaders holding government posts, serving in Parliament and having the experience of serving the party, adding that they and Cameron Highlands MP K. Devamany had been tasked with bringing problems faced by the Indian community to Parliament.

On Sothinathan, he said: “I am putting him in the elections now. I don't want him to be an appointed man all the time.”

When contacted, Subramaniam said he would comment on the matter later. ~~~~~~~


Dearest ER and mGf, did you spy any TOADY in the plural killed along the highway on the way to work today?
You mean you saw them all hanging around Da Prersident?
Enough English word pray for toady?