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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lackey \Lack"ey\, noun; 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.
Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. --Shak.
{Lackey caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lackey \Lack"ey\, verb (used with an object) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lackey \Lack"ey\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lackeyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lackeying}.] To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lackey
noun
1: a male servant (especially a footman) [syn: {flunky}, {flunkey}]
2: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {toady}, {crawler}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Lackey, KY Zip code(s): 41643
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