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The meaning of the word "Lackey" in English


Lackey v. : An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

Lackey v. t. : To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.

Lackey v. i. : To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

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Lackey, free encyclopedia, theories, search, wine, Illustration, Paul Parey Verlag, Berlin 1900, original meaning, the Oxford English Dictionary, connotation, servile, follower, OED, origins, laquais, foot soldier, servant.

Defination from the web:
lackey or lacquey is a term for a uniformed manservant, in its original meaning (attested 1529, according to the Oxford English Dictionary) ... servant", ultimately from Turkish ulak, literally "a messenger".[1] In Gaelic, it is a surname related to the word for stone, leac lackey. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) flunky
  (noun) flunkey
  (noun) sycophant
  (noun) toady
  (noun) crawler
  (noun) adulator
  (noun) flatterer
  (noun) retainer
  (noun) servant


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