Great Expectations vocabulary

Princess Varvara was her husband's aunt, and she had long known her, and did not respect her. She knew that Princess Varvara had passed her whole life toadying on her rich relations, but that she should now be sponging on Vronsky, a man who was nothing to her, mortified Dolly on account of her kinship with her husband.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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I was a little toadie: Get Amy a drink if she was thirsty, throw in a load of laundry if she needed clean underwear.

Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.290 (2012)

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they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)