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lackey
/ˈlæki/
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What does lackey mean?
noun
- A footman, a liveried male servant.
- A fawning, servile follower.
verb
- To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlæki/
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I will speak to him like a saucy lackey, and under that habit play the knave with him.
To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
More book examples (3)
After midsummer they watched the weather-cocks as men waiting in antechambers watch the lackey.
He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
Hence it comes about that in the economy of the leisure class the busy housewife of the early patriarchal days, with her retinue of hard-working handmaidens, presently gives place to the lady and the lackey.