Lackey

Quick meaning: Lackey is a noun meaning A footman, a liveried male servant.

Meaning

A footman, a liveried male servant.

More Meanings

1. A fawning, servile follower.
2. (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.

Example Sentences

So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her […]

[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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• lackeys
• lacquey
• lacky
• lackeying
• lackeyed

Synonyms for lackey

Depending on context, synonyms include lickspittle, acolyte, adjutant, bootlicker, disciple, flunkey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flunkey, flunky, toady, sycophant, crawler, stooge.

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