Lackey
['lækɪ]
Definition
(v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
(v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
(v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Footman, footboy, errand-boy.
v. a. Attend (as a servant), wait on, dance attendance on.
Editor: Paula
Definition
n. a menial attendant: a footman or footboy.—v.t. and v.i. to pay servile attendance: to act as a footman.
Edited by Angelina
Examples
- A mere lackey for Dr. John his valet, his foot-boy! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tell the scoundrel to drive on quick, he shouted with an oath, to the lackey on the box. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Perhaps he won't want it again, replied the lackey, looking knowingly at his master. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now, said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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