Toadies

[ebonlock]

Ok so I'm currently watching "The Worst Jobs in History" (the Stuarts) and just found out where the word "toady" came from. Apparently they were the sidekicks of quack medical practitioners peddling their cure alls. The "toady" would appear to swallow a poisonous toad and then be "cured" by the quack's medicine. Is it wrong to be so utterly delighted by etymology? Yeah, ok, I'm a word geek, I cop to that.