lackey

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
    
from The 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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Lackey, KY
  Zip code(s): 41643
    
from 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

    

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