English-Thai Dictionary

lackey

N คนรับใช้ ชาย ที่ สวม เครื่องแบบ  ขี้ข้า  footman liveried manservant kon-rab-chai-chai-ti-suam-krueang-baeb

 

lackey

N ผู้ติดตาม  ข้า ติดตาม  flunky flunkey toady phu-tid-tam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LACKEY

n.[L. lego, to send. ] An attending servant; a footboy or footman.

 

LACKEY

v.t.To attend servilely.

 

LACKEY

v.i.To act as footboy; to pay servile attendance. Oft have I servants seen on horses ride, the free and noble lackey by their side.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LACKEY

Lack "ey, n.; pl. Lackeys. Etym: [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E.lick, v.]

 

Defn: An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria ) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (C. Americana and C. sylvatica ) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent. -- Lackey moth (Zoöl.), the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.

 

LACKEY

LACKEY Lack "ey, v. t.

 

Defn: To attend as a lackey; to wait upon. A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

 

LACKEY

Lack "ey, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lackeyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lackeying.]

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

lackey

lack ey |ˈlakē ˈlæki | ▶noun ( pl. lackeys ) a servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant. • derogatory a person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person or group of people. ▶verb (also lacquey ) ( lackeys, lackeying, lackeyed ) [ with obj. ] archaic behave servilely to; wait upon as a lackey. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-ḵā 'id ‘the chief. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

lackey

lackey |ˈlaki | ▶noun ( pl. lackeys ) 1 a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. • derogatory a person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person. 2 (also lackey moth ) a brownish European moth of woods and hedgerows, the caterpillars of which live communally in a silken tent on the food tree. [mid 19th cent.: from the resemblance of the coloured stripes of its caterpillars to a footman's livery. ] ●Malacosoma neustria, family Lasiocampidae. ▶verb ( lackeys, lackeying, lackeyed ) [ with obj. ] archaic behave servilely towards; wait on as a lackey. ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā 'id ‘the chief ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

lackey

lackey noun 1 lackeys helped them from their carriage: servant, flunky, footman, manservant, valet, steward, butler, attendant, houseboy, domestic; archaic scullion. 2 one of the manager's lackeys: toady, flunky, sycophant, flatterer, minion, hanger-on, lickspittle, brown-noser, spaniel, pawn, underling, stooge; informal yes-man, trained seal, bootlicker, doormat, drudge, peon.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

lackey

lackey noun 1 lackeys were waiting to help them from their carriage: servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum; informal skivvy; archaic scullion. 2 a rich man's lackey: 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.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

lackey

lack ey /lǽki /名詞 複 ～s C ｟けなして ｠他人の言いなりになる人 ; ｟やや古 ｠しもべ .