lackey
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lackey¹
- /ˈlæ.ki/
Rhymes with -æki
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek λακές (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.
noun lackeys · lacquey · lacky
- A footman, a liveried male servant. My dearest father,—I say nothing of them,—but I dare to speak of myself,—I can never be a monk,—if that is your object—spurn me,—order your lacqueys to drag me from this carriage,—leave me a beggar in the streets to cry “fire and water,”—but do not make me a monk.
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A fawning, servile follower.
The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.
Similar: lickspittle, acolyte, adjutant, aide, bootlicker, disciple, flunkey, footman, satrap, follower, henchman, hireling
verb lackeys · lackeying · lackeyed · lacquey · lacky
- To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously. [T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
- To toady, play the flunky.
Lackey²
proper noun Lackeys
- A surname.
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