lackey

6 definitions found

lackey - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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

  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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lackey - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

lackey - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Lackey, KY
    Zip code(s): 41643

lackey - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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