lackey

Speech parts

1. lackey - Noun

2. lackey - Verb

4. Lackey - Proper noun

Meaning

An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.

To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sycophant flunky crawler minion servant subordinate follower attendant retainer stooge lapdog henchman toady bootlicker underling
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Antonyms

president dean ceo captain patriarch foreman
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Hypernyms

servant retainer flatterer adulator

Hyponyms

groveler goody-goody bootlicker fawner apple polisher groveller

Phrases with the word

court lackey

Derivatives

lackeys lackeyed lackeying

Anagrams

Ackley Yackel

Examples

Action proceeded to a roof, where Calaway summoned flames as choral music kicked in. He punched his way through all three Club members, Tombstoning a lackey after throwing the other off the roof to make it one-on-one again. Source: Internet

Also living in the complex were Lynn and Craig Lackey. Source: Internet

During this time, Marion Zimmer Bradley included her short stories in an anthology; and Cherryh helped Lackey through 17 rewrites of 'Arrows'. Source: Internet

She has gone from Joker’s lackey to her own full fledged anti-hero. Source: Internet

In "Exemplar: A Secret World Chronicles Prequel Story," by Mercedes Lackey, Vickie Nagy has gone to the St Rhiannon's School for Exceptional Students in up-state New York, feeling a stranger out of place in a new world full of beautiful people. Source: Internet

Doesn’t that make you a political lackey and ideological lap-dog? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

lacked protection Lackenby lacker lackey moth lackeydom lackeyism