| Lackey 1. (n.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. 2. (v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon. 3. (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance. Thesaurus Entries 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 |