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lackey
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Many employees regarded Human Resources staff as little more than management lackeys. ▪ Some poeple in the UK were worried that their country might be regarded as simply being a lackey of the US
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lackey or lacquey , in its original definition (attested 1529, according to the Oxford English Dictionary ), is a uniformed manservant . The modern connotation of "servile follower" appeared later, in 1588 ( OED ).
Usage examples of lackey.
Dick drove her into the city in almost unbroken silence and left her at the great doors of the Grantham, abustle with a dozen lackeys in purple livery.
And in time he came to a great hedge and a gate with a little brick lodge, and when he rang the bell there hobbled to admit him no robed and annointed lackey of the palace, but a small stubby old man in a smock who spoke as best he could in the quaint tones of far Cornwall.
Enriquez, a lackey named Rubio, the two Aragonese - Mesa and Insausti - and another whose name was Bosque.
Perhaps it was not only the sight of Tilly standing levelling a gun at him that raised the fury in Bentwood but the fact that she seemed surrounded by all her lackeys, for besides the two flunkeys three outside men were standing by her now.
But lackey and lass, and page and groom, all denied stoutly that they had ever seen such a bag of money as my gudesire described.
He treated Kellie and Hutch as if they were lackeys and gofers, persons whose sole purpose was to make the world comfortable for people like himself.
I am one of those who think that the parts which kings and powerful nobles are called upon to act are infinitely of more worth than the parts of beggars or lackeys.
I found her, and took her from her lackeys and lickspittle suitors, and brought her here.
Crowds of lackeys flew through the rooms bearing silver plateaux filled with the richest viands, the most costly fruits, and the rarest wines.
By: Mercedes Lackey Synopsis: In Storm Rising, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the Kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs-terrifying creatures out of nightmare.
Ibrahim tried to prevent your arrival here by sending winged afrits, and having his lackey Zapolya send conventional assassins, to intercept you.
A lackey who was at the door informed me that his lordship was still in bed.
They were bourgeois communities, peopled mainly by commuters-more capitalists and lackeys!
At Naples he had cheated the Chevalier de Morosini by persuading him to become his surety to the extent of six thousand ducats, and now he arrived in Florence in a handsome carriage, bringing his mistress with him, and having two tall lackeys and a valet in his service.
Far better and safer to send the seigneurs, their women and their smarmy lackeys packing.