Definition of lackey in English:

lackey

nounPlural lackeys ˈlakiˈlæki

1A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.
（尤指穿制服的）男仆，侍从
lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage
Example sentencesExamples
- Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile.
- No, she wouldn't unleash her rage upon a mere lackey.
- It was the morning of his wedding and one could already hear the sound of the Marquise au Fontaine calling out instructions to the lackeys and servants.
- Cypris' lackeys just stood there, speechless, and awaited instructions for what to do.
- The original has more than 30 characters plus assorted lackeys, pastry cooks and cadets to help create a vision of life in 17 th-century Paris.
- This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys.
- He said: ‘I was the lackey of the team who does the running about for the water bottles and sandwiches, but I also got a brilliant opportunity to ride as part of a racing team competing along my sporting heroes.’
- But if that looks like the record of loyal family retainers, slaving away un-noticed in the ‘big house’ like some Victorian lackeys, think again.
- In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar.
- I would send the lackey after him to let him know if I needed him.
- He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place.
- When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’.
- Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
- Ruby and her lackeys were standing around the alter, Ruby's hands were on the stake, ready to plunge it into her heart.
- Simon Trinder turns Teodoro's lackey into a bundle of popeyed, inventive energy.
- "Edward must've sent his lackeys to find us, " Aruna mused.
- A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table.
- And the sorceress Ro sent out a servant boy and her lackey Isamu to go shopping.
- He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question.
- Kerry talks in generalities because he is alone and comes from nowhere and lives among servants and lackeys in hotel rooms.
Synonyms
servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum
informal skivvy
archaic scullion
1. 1.1derogatory A person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person.
  〈贬〉马屁精
  he denied that he was the lackey of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury
  Example sentencesExamples
  I am no-one's stooge, lackey or puppet.
  I know Blair has many well paid advisers, but here is a bit of free advice: if you are going to hire a lackey and a yes man, then hire a clever one who understands the importance of subtlety.
  Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real.
  Anyway, you're not doing anyone any good by being out of work, even if your old boss is a running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie.
  Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions?
  If, on the other hand, he jacks up, he is a snivelling traitor, an America hater, a betrayer of Australian business and/or a pawn and lackey of selfish vested interest groups, a man who puts cheap populism ahead of his country.
  I also lament the fact that we are here in urgency because the toadies and lackeys of the United Future party have decided to sign up to the use of urgency without even testing the questions that they should properly have asked.
  We already have a President and the Rodent is his biggest crawling, lick-spittle lackey.
  King Idris is involved, of course, this place could not exist without his permission, but he is a mere lackey.
  Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class.
  Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world.
  I saved you because you and your lackeys over there serve a purpose.
  He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife.
  Was I being an agent of change or just another instructional lackey creating ordinary teachers?
  They have turned into mere lackeys of big business.
  The anti-MMR campaign has repeatedly smeared its critics either as stooges of the medical establishment or as lackeys of the vaccine manufacturers (themes which recur in Hear the Silence).
  Such is the life of a corporate lackey.
  He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists.
  By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
  And, this group of people no longer had real power, over real things; they had the power to become lackeys; and to serve as lackeys.
  Synonyms
  toady, flunkey, sycophant, flatterer, minion, doormat, dogsbody, spaniel, stooge, hanger-on, lickspittle, parasite
  tool, puppet, instrument, pawn, subordinate, underling, creature, cat's paw
  informal yes-man, bootlicker
2A brownish European moth of woods and hedgerows, the caterpillars of which live communally in a silken tent on the food tree.
天幕蛾
Malacosoma neustria, family Lasiocampidae

verblackeys, lackeying, lackeyed ˈlakiˈlæki

[with object]archaic

Behave servilely towards; wait on as a lackey.
〈古〉阿谀，拍马
he had lackeyed and flattered Walpole

Origin

Early 16th century: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā'id 'the chief'.

Rhymes

ackee, Bacchae, baccy, cracky, Jackie, tacky, wacky

Definition of lackey in US English:

lackey

nounˈlakēˈlæki

1A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.
（尤指穿制服的）男仆，侍从
Example sentencesExamples
- When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’.
- It was the morning of his wedding and one could already hear the sound of the Marquise au Fontaine calling out instructions to the lackeys and servants.
- In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar.
- This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys.
- No, she wouldn't unleash her rage upon a mere lackey.
- Ruby and her lackeys were standing around the alter, Ruby's hands were on the stake, ready to plunge it into her heart.
- And the sorceress Ro sent out a servant boy and her lackey Isamu to go shopping.
- Simon Trinder turns Teodoro's lackey into a bundle of popeyed, inventive energy.
- A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table.
- He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place.
- I would send the lackey after him to let him know if I needed him.
- He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question.
- Kerry talks in generalities because he is alone and comes from nowhere and lives among servants and lackeys in hotel rooms.
- Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
- Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile.
- Cypris' lackeys just stood there, speechless, and awaited instructions for what to do.
- He said: ‘I was the lackey of the team who does the running about for the water bottles and sandwiches, but I also got a brilliant opportunity to ride as part of a racing team competing along my sporting heroes.’
- The original has more than 30 characters plus assorted lackeys, pastry cooks and cadets to help create a vision of life in 17 th-century Paris.
- But if that looks like the record of loyal family retainers, slaving away un-noticed in the ‘big house’ like some Victorian lackeys, think again.
- "Edward must've sent his lackeys to find us, " Aruna mused.
Synonyms
servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum
1. 1.1derogatory A person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person or group of people.
  〈贬〉马屁精
  Example sentencesExamples
  He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists.
  The anti-MMR campaign has repeatedly smeared its critics either as stooges of the medical establishment or as lackeys of the vaccine manufacturers (themes which recur in Hear the Silence).
  Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world.
  Was I being an agent of change or just another instructional lackey creating ordinary teachers?
  Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real.
  He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife.
  I also lament the fact that we are here in urgency because the toadies and lackeys of the United Future party have decided to sign up to the use of urgency without even testing the questions that they should properly have asked.
  Anyway, you're not doing anyone any good by being out of work, even if your old boss is a running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie.
  If, on the other hand, he jacks up, he is a snivelling traitor, an America hater, a betrayer of Australian business and/or a pawn and lackey of selfish vested interest groups, a man who puts cheap populism ahead of his country.
  Such is the life of a corporate lackey.
  I know Blair has many well paid advisers, but here is a bit of free advice: if you are going to hire a lackey and a yes man, then hire a clever one who understands the importance of subtlety.
  I saved you because you and your lackeys over there serve a purpose.
  Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class.
  Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions?
  I am no-one's stooge, lackey or puppet.
  King Idris is involved, of course, this place could not exist without his permission, but he is a mere lackey.
  They have turned into mere lackeys of big business.
  By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
  We already have a President and the Rodent is his biggest crawling, lick-spittle lackey.
  And, this group of people no longer had real power, over real things; they had the power to become lackeys; and to serve as lackeys.
  Synonyms
  toady, flunkey, sycophant, flatterer, minion, doormat, dogsbody, spaniel, stooge, hanger-on, lickspittle, parasite

verbˈlakēˈlæki

[with object]archaic

Behave servilely to; wait upon as a lackey.
〈古〉阿谀，拍马

Origin

Early 16th century: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā'id ‘the chief’.

词汇	lackey
释义	Definition of lackey in English: lackey nounPlural lackeys ˈlakiˈlæki 1A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. （尤指穿制服的）男仆，侍从 lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage Example sentencesExamples Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile. No, she wouldn't unleash her rage upon a mere lackey. It was the morning of his wedding and one could already hear the sound of the Marquise au Fontaine calling out instructions to the lackeys and servants. Cypris' lackeys just stood there, speechless, and awaited instructions for what to do. The original has more than 30 characters plus assorted lackeys, pastry cooks and cadets to help create a vision of life in 17 th-century Paris. This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys. He said: ‘I was the lackey of the team who does the running about for the water bottles and sandwiches, but I also got a brilliant opportunity to ride as part of a racing team competing along my sporting heroes.’ But if that looks like the record of loyal family retainers, slaving away un-noticed in the ‘big house’ like some Victorian lackeys, think again. In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar. I would send the lackey after him to let him know if I needed him. He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place. When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’. Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Ruby and her lackeys were standing around the alter, Ruby's hands were on the stake, ready to plunge it into her heart. Simon Trinder turns Teodoro's lackey into a bundle of popeyed, inventive energy. "Edward must've sent his lackeys to find us, " Aruna mused. A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table. And the sorceress Ro sent out a servant boy and her lackey Isamu to go shopping. He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question. Kerry talks in generalities because he is alone and comes from nowhere and lives among servants and lackeys in hotel rooms. Synonyms servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum informal skivvy archaic scullion 1.1derogatory A person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person. 〈贬〉马屁精 he denied that he was the lackey of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Example sentencesExamples I am no-one's stooge, lackey or puppet. I know Blair has many well paid advisers, but here is a bit of free advice: if you are going to hire a lackey and a yes man, then hire a clever one who understands the importance of subtlety. Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real. Anyway, you're not doing anyone any good by being out of work, even if your old boss is a running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie. Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions? If, on the other hand, he jacks up, he is a snivelling traitor, an America hater, a betrayer of Australian business and/or a pawn and lackey of selfish vested interest groups, a man who puts cheap populism ahead of his country. I also lament the fact that we are here in urgency because the toadies and lackeys of the United Future party have decided to sign up to the use of urgency without even testing the questions that they should properly have asked. We already have a President and the Rodent is his biggest crawling, lick-spittle lackey. King Idris is involved, of course, this place could not exist without his permission, but he is a mere lackey. Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class. Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world. I saved you because you and your lackeys over there serve a purpose. He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife. Was I being an agent of change or just another instructional lackey creating ordinary teachers? They have turned into mere lackeys of big business. The anti-MMR campaign has repeatedly smeared its critics either as stooges of the medical establishment or as lackeys of the vaccine manufacturers (themes which recur in Hear the Silence). Such is the life of a corporate lackey. He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’. And, this group of people no longer had real power, over real things; they had the power to become lackeys; and to serve as lackeys. Synonyms toady, flunkey, sycophant, flatterer, minion, doormat, dogsbody, spaniel, stooge, hanger-on, lickspittle, parasite tool, puppet, instrument, pawn, subordinate, underling, creature, cat's paw informal yes-man, bootlicker 2A brownish European moth of woods and hedgerows, the caterpillars of which live communally in a silken tent on the food tree. 天幕蛾 Malacosoma neustria, family Lasiocampidae verblackeys, lackeying, lackeyed ˈlakiˈlæki [with object]archaic Behave servilely towards; wait on as a lackey. 〈古〉阿谀，拍马 he had lackeyed and flattered Walpole Origin Early 16th century: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā'id 'the chief'. Rhymes ackee, Bacchae, baccy, cracky, Jackie, tacky, wacky Definition of lackey in US English: lackey nounˈlakēˈlæki 1A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. （尤指穿制服的）男仆，侍从 Example sentencesExamples When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’. It was the morning of his wedding and one could already hear the sound of the Marquise au Fontaine calling out instructions to the lackeys and servants. In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar. This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys. No, she wouldn't unleash her rage upon a mere lackey. Ruby and her lackeys were standing around the alter, Ruby's hands were on the stake, ready to plunge it into her heart. And the sorceress Ro sent out a servant boy and her lackey Isamu to go shopping. Simon Trinder turns Teodoro's lackey into a bundle of popeyed, inventive energy. A little while later some of the host's lackeys brought out about a dozen chooks in a long wire cage which they laid in the centre of the table. He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place. I would send the lackey after him to let him know if I needed him. He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question. Kerry talks in generalities because he is alone and comes from nowhere and lives among servants and lackeys in hotel rooms. Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile. Cypris' lackeys just stood there, speechless, and awaited instructions for what to do. He said: ‘I was the lackey of the team who does the running about for the water bottles and sandwiches, but I also got a brilliant opportunity to ride as part of a racing team competing along my sporting heroes.’ The original has more than 30 characters plus assorted lackeys, pastry cooks and cadets to help create a vision of life in 17 th-century Paris. But if that looks like the record of loyal family retainers, slaving away un-noticed in the ‘big house’ like some Victorian lackeys, think again. "Edward must've sent his lackeys to find us, " Aruna mused. Synonyms servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum 1.1derogatory A person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person or group of people. 〈贬〉马屁精 Example sentencesExamples He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. The anti-MMR campaign has repeatedly smeared its critics either as stooges of the medical establishment or as lackeys of the vaccine manufacturers (themes which recur in Hear the Silence). Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world. Was I being an agent of change or just another instructional lackey creating ordinary teachers? Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants, toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real. He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife. I also lament the fact that we are here in urgency because the toadies and lackeys of the United Future party have decided to sign up to the use of urgency without even testing the questions that they should properly have asked. Anyway, you're not doing anyone any good by being out of work, even if your old boss is a running dog lackey of the bourgeoisie. If, on the other hand, he jacks up, he is a snivelling traitor, an America hater, a betrayer of Australian business and/or a pawn and lackey of selfish vested interest groups, a man who puts cheap populism ahead of his country. Such is the life of a corporate lackey. I know Blair has many well paid advisers, but here is a bit of free advice: if you are going to hire a lackey and a yes man, then hire a clever one who understands the importance of subtlety. I saved you because you and your lackeys over there serve a purpose. Sometimes they are heroes - doctors and engineers cleaning up slums, lawyers fighting for the rights of oppressed minorities; and sometimes they are villains - stooges and lackeys of the ruling class. Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions? I am no-one's stooge, lackey or puppet. King Idris is involved, of course, this place could not exist without his permission, but he is a mere lackey. They have turned into mere lackeys of big business. By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’. We already have a President and the Rodent is his biggest crawling, lick-spittle lackey. And, this group of people no longer had real power, over real things; they had the power to become lackeys; and to serve as lackeys. Synonyms toady, flunkey, sycophant, flatterer, minion, doormat, dogsbody, spaniel, stooge, hanger-on, lickspittle, parasite verbˈlakēˈlæki [with object]archaic Behave servilely to; wait upon as a lackey. 〈古〉阿谀，拍马 Origin Early 16th century: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā'id ‘the chief’.
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