Lackey

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. t.
     To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
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           A thousand liveried angels lackey her.   --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lackeyed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Lackeying}.]
     To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
     [1913 Webster] Lackluster

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lackey \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.
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           Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
                                                    --Shak.
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     {Lackey caterpillar} (Zool.), the caterpillar, or larva, of
        any bombycid moth of the genus {Clisiocampa}; -- so called
        from its party-colored markings. The common European
        species ({Clisiocampa neustria}) is striped with blue,
        yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The
        American species ({Clisiocampa Americana} and {Clisiocampa
        sylvatica}) are commonly called {tent caterpillars}. See
        {Tent caterpillar}, under {Tent}.
  
     {Lackey moth} (Zool.), the moth which produces the lackey
        caterpillar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lackey
       n 1: a male servant (especially a footman) [syn: {flunky}, {flunkey}]
       2: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
          personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {toady}, {crawler}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "lackey":
     adherent, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper,
     bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, 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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Lackey, KY
    Zip code(s): 41643