Lackey

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  • noun. A liveried male servant; a footman.
  • noun. A servile follower; a toady.
  • intransitive verb. To wait on as a footman; attend.
  • intransitive verb. To act in a servile manner; fawn.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An attending servant; a runner; a footboy or footman; hence, any servile follower.
  • noun. A lackey-moth.
  • To wait on as or like a lackey; attend servilely; serve as a menial.
  • To act as a lackey or footman; give servile attendance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
  • intransitive verb. To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
  • noun. An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A footman, a liveried male servant.
  • noun. A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
  • verb. To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously
  • verb. To toady, play the flunky
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
  • noun. a male servant (especially a footman)
  • Word Usage
    "Only the hapless Ring lackey is duped and cornered into making some very wrong choices."
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