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Lackey

Lackey Meaning & Definition
Lackey Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lackey?

[n] a male servant (especially a footman)
[n] a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lackey: crawler | flunkey | flunky | sycophant | toady

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lackey: adherent | apple-polisher | ass-licker | backscratcher | backslapper | bootlick | bootlicker | brownie | brown-nose | clawback | courtier | creature | cringer | dependent | disciple | dummy | dupe | fawner | feudatory | figurehead | flatterer | flunky | follower | footlicker | footman | gillie | goon | groveler | handshaker | hanger-on | helot | henchman | homager | inferior | instrument | jackal | kowtower | led captain | lickspit | lickspittle | liege | liege man | liveried servant | man | mealymouth | minion | myrmidon | peon | puppet | retainer | satellite | serf | slave | spaniel | stooge | subordinate | suck | sycophant | thug | timeserver | toad | toady | tool | truckler | tufthunter | underling | understrapper | vassal | votary | yeoman | yes-man

See Also | adulator | apple polisher | ass-kisser | bootlicker | fawner | flatterer | goody-goody | groveler | groveller | retainer | servant | truckler

Lackey In Webster's Dictionary

\Lack"ey\, n.; pl. {Lackeys}. [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. --Shak. {Lackey caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus {Clisiocampa}; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species ({C. neustria}) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species ({C. Americana} and {C. sylvatica}) are commonly called {tent caterpillars}. See {Tent caterpillar}, under {Tent}. {Lackey moth} (Zo["o]l.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
\Lack"ey\, v. t. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon. A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton.
\Lack"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lackeyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lackeying}.] To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

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