About The Word Lackey
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Lackey
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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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