Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is LACKEY - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Lacquey; Lacky; Lackey (disambiguation)
lackey
¦ noun (plural lackeys)
1. a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.
2. a servile or obsequious person.
3. a brownish moth whose caterpillars live in groups in a silken shelter. [Malacosoma neustria.]
¦ verb (lackeys, lackeying, lackeyed) archaic behave in a servile way towards.
Origin
C16: from Fr. laquais, perh. from Catalan alacay, from Arab. al-?a'id 'the chief'. Sense 3 derives from the resemblance of the coloured stripes of the caterpillars to a footman's livery.
lackey
(lackeys)
If you describe someone as a lackey, you are critical of them because they follow someone's orders completely, without ever questioning them.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
lackey
I. n.
Footman, footboy, flunky.
II. v. a.
Attend (as a servant), wait on, dance attendance on.
Examples of use of LACKEY
1. Basham‘s column, emphasizing that he‘s no American lackey.
2. "That‘s going to take a lot of money," Lackey said.
3. Leftists called Mubarak a coward and an American lackey.
4. TV presenter Diane Sawyer, he instructed a lackey to write: "It‘s a girl!
5. Goudeau‘s attorneys, Corwin Townsend and Cary Lackey, said Goudeau will continue to maintain his innocence.