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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a male servant (especially a footman);
[syn: lackey, flunky, flunkey]

2. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage;
[syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. t. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon. [1913 Webster] A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lackey \Lack"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lackeyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lackeying.] To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance. [1913 Webster] Lackluster
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Lackey caterpillar (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lackey n 1: a male servant (especially a footman) [syn: lackey, flunky, flunkey] 2: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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