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LACKEY
lackey, flunky, flunkey
(noun) a male servant (especially a footman)
sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser
(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lackey (plural lackeys)
A footman, a liveried male servant.
A fawning, servile follower.
Synonyms: lickspittle, Thesaurus:loyal follower
Verb
lackey (third-person singular simple present lackeys, present participle lackeying, simple past and past participle lackeyed)
(transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
(intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.
Anagrams
• Ackley
Proper noun
Lackey (plural Lackeys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lackey is the 1996th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 18082 individuals. Lackey is most common among White (84.07%) and Black/African American (10.37%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Ackley
Source: Wiktionary
Lack"ey, n.; pl. Lackeys. Etym: [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E.lick, v.]
Definition: An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
Lack"ey, v. t.
Definition: 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.]
Definition: To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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