lackeyn.

Brit.

/ˈlaki/, U.S.

/ˈlæki/

Forms: α. 1500s lakay, lakey, lakye, lackeie, lacquie, 1500s–1600s lackeye, lackie, 1500s–1700s lacky, 1600s lacquay, lacquaie, la(ck)quay, lacquy, laquey, 1500s– lackey, lacquey; plural 1500s– lackeys, lacqueys, etc.; also 1500s lackeis, lackyes, 1600s lack(e)yes, 1600s–1700s laquies, 1500s–1800s lackies. β. Scottish1500s alakay, allacay, ylacay, 1600s allakey.

Etymology: < French laquais, in Old French plural laquaiz, laquetz, also alacays, (h)alaques (whence the βforms), in 15th cent. a kind of foot-soldier, subsequently a footman, servant. The etymology is obscure; compare Spanish lacayo, Portuguese lacayo; Italian lacchè is from French.

a. A footman, esp. a running footman; a valet.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > footman

footmanc1405

foot knavea1425

lackey1512

lacket1523

staffier1532

outrunner1598

fore-footman1610

skip-kennel1668

fart-catcher1785

carriage man1857

α.

1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. D^v His wiffe, her gentle woman or mayde, two yowmen, and one lackey.

1596 ‘L. Piot’ tr. A. van den Busche Orator sig. Aa3^v How manie Noble men doe burst their lacquise legs with running.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1067 Lackies before her charriot must run.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 159 The lackey rides, and the Prince goes on foote.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋1 The Coachman with a new Cockade, and the Lacqueys with Insolence..in their Countenances.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II Notes 141 He was wronged by his lacquey, and overcharged by his washerwoman.

1849 R. Cobden Speeches 10 Popes and potentates have run away in the disguises of lacqueys.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. ii. 286 He was not her lackey, and..she might send some one else with her errands.

β. 1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 342 Item, to ane Franche ylacay,..xiiij s.1538 Sc. Ld. Treasurer's Acc. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 292 ix Pagis, iiij Allacayis, iij Mulitaris.1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 35^v At ilk bridill ane proper Alakay.1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 212/2 Ane allakey put ane steil bonnet on his heid.

b. figurative. †A constant follower (obsolete); one who is servilely obsequious, a toady.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun]

followereOE

youngereOE

retenantc1390

suitora1398

waitera1500

retainer1508

pursuivant1513

villein1534

consequent1550

backmanc1560

janissary1565

jackman1566

hensure1568

belonger1577

lackey1588

sequent1598

pedissequant1607

henchman1754

gesith1861

ministerialis1888

the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile person

clienta1393

snivelard1398

a dog for (also to) the bowc1405

fawnerc1440

snivellerc1450

slave1521

footstool1531

minion1560

footman1567

cringer1582

earthworm1583

yea-sayer1584

croucher1587

creeper1589

sneak-up1598

spaniel1598

sneak-cupa1616

servile1632

puppy dog1651

clientelary1655

lackey1692

groveling1708

prostite1721

prostitute1721

toad-eater1742

groveller1779

cringeling1798

creeping Jesusc1818

toady1826

truckler1827

crawler1847

flunkey1854

doormat1861

dog robber1863

heeler1875

slaveling1884

bootlicker1890

fetch-and-carry1905

poodle1907

yes-woman1927

ass-licker1939

ass-kisser1951

chamcha1966

fart-catcher1971

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey

bone-pickera1627

lackey1692

stooge1937

agterryer1962

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 19 I thinke Simonie be the bishops lacky.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §72. 37 There are some flowers that are the Laquies of the sun.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. iii. 85 In Politicks no Man more a Lackey and Slave to Tyrants than he.

1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 25 It is right to be obliging, but we are not obliged to be every man's lackey.

c. spec. As a term of political abuse: a servile follower.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > political hanger-on

water carrier1835

bummer1872

heeler1875

ward-heeler1890

lackey1939

fart-catcher1971

1939 G. E. R. Gedye Fallen Bastions ii. 37 The Communists did not hesitate to condemn them [sc. the Austrian Socialist leaders], as ‘Social Fascists’ who did ‘lackey service’ to capitalist reaction.

1941 Amer. Mercury Apr. 417/2 American bankers..have already stepped into the role of lackeys of British Imperialism.

1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon p. xiv The Soviet Union stands for peace, and the imperialists for war, in which they are once again supported by their socialist ‘lackeys’.

1969 Listener 27 Apr. 429/3 Whatever else went under the name of socialism was either ‘wilful deception by lackeys of the bourgeoisie’ or the self-deception of those who hesitated ‘between life-and-death struggle and the role of assistants to the expiring bourgeoisie’.

1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 30/2 As any good Maoist..can tell you, Hussein is nothing more than a Western lackey.

1973 Black Panther 21 July 10/2 The U.S. government or its lackeys.

1974 A. Ross Bradford Business 129 Bloody fascist lackeys!

2. A hanger-on, a camp follower. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > camp follower > [noun]

rascal1539

lackey1556

boy1572

soldier's boy1611

camper1631

lix1665

retainer1784

camp-follower1810

1556 Acc. in Sharpe Cov. Myst. (1825) 193 Payd to xiiij gonners and a lakye lixs.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 552 Slaues,..lackies, and other stragglers that followed the campe.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. viii. 185 Like to lawlesse lackies that follow the campe.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. i. 173 The..lackeys, and dross of the camp—false alike to Henry and to Edward.

3. = lackey-moth n. at Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1857 H. T. Stainton Man. Brit. Butterflies & Moths I. 156 Clisiocampa castrensis (Ground Lackey)... C. neustria (Lackey).

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 42 The Lackey (Bombyx neustria).

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.

lackey-boy n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy

knightc950

knapec1000

shalkOE

knaveOE

sergeantc1200

swainc1275

groom1297

garcion13..

ladc1300

harlota1350

serving-mana1400

manservant1409

varlet1483

handman1496

custrelinga1556

Sim Shakebuckler?1560

lackey-boy1575

vadelect1586

muchacho1591

round robin1591

varlettoa1616

vadelet1661

gossoon1684

skip1699

mozo1811

Jack1836

tea-boy1847

John1848

1575 G. Turberville tr. F. S. Vicentino Treat. Cure Spanels in Bk. Faulconrie 371 By misfortune or negligence of your lackey boye.

1677 Lovers Quarrel 73 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 256 Away this lacky boy he ran.

lackey-brat n.

ΚΠ

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C5^v Shall thy Dads lackie brat Weare thy Sires halfe-rot finger in his hat?

lackey-slave n.

ΚΠ

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 207 Like a lackey slave.

lackey-like adj. and adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adverb] > like footman

lackey-like1603

footman-like1736

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey

lackeyan1620

lackey-like1829

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 82 Sweat before Vertue lacky-like doth rin To ope the gate of Glory sempiterne.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 437 The Sieur Longchamp's..most lackey-like Narrative.

C2.

lackey-caterpillar n. the caterpillar from which the lackey-moth is developed.

lackey-moth n. a bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa (for the origin of the name see quot. 1868).

ΚΠ

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxx. 577 The Lackey moths are so called on account of the bright colours of the caterpillars, which are striped and decorated like modern footmen.

1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 292 The caterpillars of the Lackey Moth are injurious to the leafage of apples.

Derivatives

† ˈlackeyan adj. Obsolete of or pertaining to a lackey.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey

lackeyan1620

lackey-like1829

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. xv. 120 The little blind Boy,..Love, would not lose the occasion offered to triumph upon a Lackyan Soul.

ˈlackeyed adj. attended by lackeys.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey > attended by lackeys

lackeyed1762

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 281 For our pleasure the lacquied train..moves in review.

ˈlackeyship n. the condition or position of lackeys; lackeys collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey > condition or attendance of

lackeyship1830

1830 Examiner 706/2 Creating a hereditary lackyship in the servant's hall.

1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician III. ii. xiv. 64 As he is awkward in all his operations he cannot enter the ranks of lackeyship.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lackeyv.

Brit.

/ˈlaki/, U.S.

/ˈlæki/

Forms: see the noun.

Etymology: < lackey n.

†1. intransitive. To do service as a lackey, esp. as a running footman; to run on errands, dance attendance, do menial service. Frequently figurative of persons and immaterial things. Const. after, by, to, upon; also, to lackey it. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > act as lackey

lackey1568

1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.iv I must lackey and come lugging greyhound and hound.

1592 J. Lyly Gallathea iv. ii. sig. F2 Cupid,..you shall..lackie after Diana all day.

1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. I2 The Minutes (that lackey at the heeles of Time) run not faster away then do our joyes.

1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age i. 178 I'le lackey by the wheresoe're thou goest.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 131 Who would willingly Lackey along so vast a lake of brine?

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iii. 138 Redmond Burke..caried him out of the countrey, making him lackie it by his horse side on foote like a common Horse-boy.

1640 N. Fiennes in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 181 Let the high and great Censure of the Church no longer lacquy after Fees.

1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 13 This abuse of Christianity to make it Lacquey to Ambition, is a vice for which [etc.].

1657 Lusts Dominion i. iv. sig. B11 Alvero. Shall they thus tread thee down, which once were glad, To Lacquey by thy conquering Chariot wheeles.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 18 The whole of this is eternity,..that share of it that lackies it by the worlds side is time.

1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. 73 Intellect, that in the Throne should sit, Must lacky after Lust.

a1677 T. Manton Christs Tempt. (1685) iv. 105 That his Power and Goodness should lacquey upon, and be at the beck of our idle and wanton humors.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 864 It being indecorous that this Divine..Power, should constantly lacquey by and attend upon Natural Generations.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. e3 He is a Foot-Poet, he Lacquies by the side of Virgil at the best, but never mounts behind him.

2. transitive. To wait upon as a lackey; to attend closely upon; to dance attendance upon. Chiefly transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend upon as servant [verb (transitive)] > as lackey

lackey1598

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F2 Note no more, Vnlesse thou spy his fayre appendant whore That lackyes him.

1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 277 Elijah..had lacquaied his coach, and tooke a peaceable leaue at this Townes end.

1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 9 He..Lackeyes his letters, does what seruice else He would imploy his man in.

1646 R. Boyle in T. Birch Life in Wks. (1772) I. 29 I saw one poor rogue, lacqueyed by his wife.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 144 So many Dangers and Miseries lackeying them.

1764 C. Churchill Independence 4 I see Men..lacquey the heels of those Whom Genius ranks amongst her greatest foes.

1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 505 The syllable ty..came over in the suite of the Norman families of words, and lacqueys only its early connexions.

1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 671 Why should it lacquey unlearned opinion, and..submit to become the mere registry of popular judgment?

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 402 The artificial method proceeds from a principle the reverse of this, making the spirit lackey the form.

1881 Q. Rev. Apr. 319 He had lacqueyed and flattered Walpole.

Derivatives

ˈlackeying adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1819 J. Keats King Stephen i. iv. 42 The generous Earl..with a sort of lackeying friendliness, Takes off the mighty frowning from his brow.

1843 T. CArlyle Let. 20 July in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1990) XVI. 303 Sound sleep for a few hours, and a lackey to awaken you at half past six. It is over now, all that lackeying, thank God!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lackey
释义	lackeyn. Brit. /ˈlaki/, U.S. /ˈlæki/ Forms: α. 1500s lakay, lakey, lakye, lackeie, lacquie, 1500s–1600s lackeye, lackie, 1500s–1700s lacky, 1600s lacquay, lacquaie, la(ck)quay, lacquy, laquey, 1500s– lackey, lacquey; plural 1500s– lackeys, lacqueys, etc.; also 1500s lackeis, lackyes, 1600s lack(e)yes, 1600s–1700s laquies, 1500s–1800s lackies. β. Scottish1500s alakay, allacay, ylacay, 1600s allakey. Etymology: < French laquais, in Old French plural laquaiz, laquetz, also alacays, (h)alaques (whence the βforms), in 15th cent. a kind of foot-soldier, subsequently a footman, servant. The etymology is obscure; compare Spanish lacayo, Portuguese lacayo; Italian lacchè is from French. 1. a. A footman, esp. a running footman; a valet. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > footman footmanc1405 foot knavea1425 lackey1512 lacket1523 staffier1532 outrunner1598 fore-footman1610 skip-kennel1668 fart-catcher1785 carriage man1857 α. 1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. D^v His wiffe, her gentle woman or mayde, two yowmen, and one lackey. 1596 ‘L. Piot’ tr. A. van den Busche Orator sig. Aa3^v How manie Noble men doe burst their lacquise legs with running. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1067 Lackies before her charriot must run. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 159 The lackey rides, and the Prince goes on foote. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 44. ⁋1 The Coachman with a new Cockade, and the Lacqueys with Insolence..in their Countenances. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II Notes 141 He was wronged by his lacquey, and overcharged by his washerwoman. 1849 R. Cobden Speeches 10 Popes and potentates have run away in the disguises of lacqueys. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. ii. 286 He was not her lackey, and..she might send some one else with her errands. β. 1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 342 Item, to ane Franche ylacay,..xiiij s.1538 Sc. Ld. Treasurer's Acc. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 292 ix Pagis, iiij Allacayis, iij Mulitaris.1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 35^v At ilk bridill ane proper Alakay.1600 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 212/2 Ane allakey put ane steil bonnet on his heid. b. figurative. †A constant follower (obsolete); one who is servilely obsequious, a toady. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] followereOE youngereOE retenantc1390 suitora1398 waitera1500 retainer1508 pursuivant1513 villein1534 consequent1550 backmanc1560 janissary1565 jackman1566 hensure1568 belonger1577 lackey1588 sequent1598 pedissequant1607 henchman1754 gesith1861 ministerialis1888 the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile person clienta1393 snivelard1398 a dog for (also to) the bowc1405 fawnerc1440 snivellerc1450 slave1521 footstool1531 minion1560 footman1567 cringer1582 earthworm1583 yea-sayer1584 croucher1587 creeper1589 sneak-up1598 spaniel1598 sneak-cupa1616 servile1632 puppy dog1651 clientelary1655 lackey1692 groveling1708 prostite1721 prostitute1721 toad-eater1742 groveller1779 cringeling1798 creeping Jesusc1818 toady1826 truckler1827 crawler1847 flunkey1854 doormat1861 dog robber1863 heeler1875 slaveling1884 bootlicker1890 fetch-and-carry1905 poodle1907 yes-woman1927 ass-licker1939 ass-kisser1951 chamcha1966 fart-catcher1971 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey bone-pickera1627 lackey1692 stooge1937 agterryer1962 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 19 I thinke Simonie be the bishops lacky. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §72. 37 There are some flowers that are the Laquies of the sun. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. iii. 85 In Politicks no Man more a Lackey and Slave to Tyrants than he. 1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 25 It is right to be obliging, but we are not obliged to be every man's lackey. c. spec. As a term of political abuse: a servile follower. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > political hanger-on water carrier1835 bummer1872 heeler1875 ward-heeler1890 lackey1939 fart-catcher1971 1939 G. E. R. Gedye Fallen Bastions ii. 37 The Communists did not hesitate to condemn them [sc. the Austrian Socialist leaders], as ‘Social Fascists’ who did ‘lackey service’ to capitalist reaction. 1941 Amer. Mercury Apr. 417/2 American bankers..have already stepped into the role of lackeys of British Imperialism. 1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon p. xiv The Soviet Union stands for peace, and the imperialists for war, in which they are once again supported by their socialist ‘lackeys’. 1969 Listener 27 Apr. 429/3 Whatever else went under the name of socialism was either ‘wilful deception by lackeys of the bourgeoisie’ or the self-deception of those who hesitated ‘between life-and-death struggle and the role of assistants to the expiring bourgeoisie’. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 30/2 As any good Maoist..can tell you, Hussein is nothing more than a Western lackey. 1973 Black Panther 21 July 10/2 The U.S. government or its lackeys. 1974 A. Ross Bradford Business 129 Bloody fascist lackeys! 2. A hanger-on, a camp follower. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > camp follower > [noun] rascal1539 lackey1556 boy1572 soldier's boy1611 camper1631 lix1665 retainer1784 camp-follower1810 1556 Acc. in Sharpe Cov. Myst. (1825) 193 Payd to xiiij gonners and a lakye lixs. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 552 Slaues,..lackies, and other stragglers that followed the campe. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. viii. 185 Like to lawlesse lackies that follow the campe. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. i. 173 The..lackeys, and dross of the camp—false alike to Henry and to Edward. 3. = lackey-moth n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1857 H. T. Stainton Man. Brit. Butterflies & Moths I. 156 Clisiocampa castrensis (Ground Lackey)... C. neustria (Lackey). 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 42 The Lackey (Bombyx neustria). Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. lackey-boy n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy knightc950 knapec1000 shalkOE knaveOE sergeantc1200 swainc1275 groom1297 garcion13.. ladc1300 harlota1350 serving-mana1400 manservant1409 varlet1483 handman1496 custrelinga1556 Sim Shakebuckler?1560 lackey-boy1575 vadelect1586 muchacho1591 round robin1591 varlettoa1616 vadelet1661 gossoon1684 skip1699 mozo1811 Jack1836 tea-boy1847 John1848 1575 G. Turberville tr. F. S. Vicentino Treat. Cure Spanels in Bk. Faulconrie 371 By misfortune or negligence of your lackey boye. 1677 Lovers Quarrel 73 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 256 Away this lacky boy he ran. lackey-brat n. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C5^v Shall thy Dads lackie brat Weare thy Sires halfe-rot finger in his hat? lackey-slave n. ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 207 Like a lackey slave. lackey-like adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adverb] > like footman lackey-like1603 footman-like1736 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey lackeyan1620 lackey-like1829 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 82 Sweat before Vertue lacky-like doth rin To ope the gate of Glory sempiterne. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 437 The Sieur Longchamp's..most lackey-like Narrative. C2. lackey-caterpillar n. the caterpillar from which the lackey-moth is developed. lackey-moth n. a bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa (for the origin of the name see quot. 1868). ΚΠ 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxx. 577 The Lackey moths are so called on account of the bright colours of the caterpillars, which are striped and decorated like modern footmen. 1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 292 The caterpillars of the Lackey Moth are injurious to the leafage of apples. Derivatives † ˈlackeyan adj. Obsolete of or pertaining to a lackey.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey lackeyan1620 lackey-like1829 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. xv. 120 The little blind Boy,..Love, would not lose the occasion offered to triumph upon a Lackyan Soul. ˈlackeyed adj. attended by lackeys.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey > attended by lackeys lackeyed1762 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 281 For our pleasure the lacquied train..moves in review. ˈlackeyship n. the condition or position of lackeys; lackeys collectively. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lackey > condition or attendance of lackeyship1830 1830 Examiner 706/2 Creating a hereditary lackyship in the servant's hall. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician III. ii. xiv. 64 As he is awkward in all his operations he cannot enter the ranks of lackeyship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lackeyv. Brit. /ˈlaki/, U.S. /ˈlæki/ Forms: see the noun. Etymology: < lackey n. †1. intransitive. To do service as a lackey, esp. as a running footman; to run on errands, dance attendance, do menial service. Frequently figurative of persons and immaterial things. Const. after, by, to, upon; also, to lackey it. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > act as lackey lackey1568 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.iv I must lackey and come lugging greyhound and hound. 1592 J. Lyly Gallathea iv. ii. sig. F2 Cupid,..you shall..lackie after Diana all day. 1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. I2 The Minutes (that lackey at the heeles of Time) run not faster away then do our joyes. 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age i. 178 I'le lackey by the wheresoe're thou goest. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 131 Who would willingly Lackey along so vast a lake of brine? 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iii. 138 Redmond Burke..caried him out of the countrey, making him lackie it by his horse side on foote like a common Horse-boy. 1640 N. Fiennes in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 181 Let the high and great Censure of the Church no longer lacquy after Fees. 1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 13 This abuse of Christianity to make it Lacquey to Ambition, is a vice for which [etc.]. 1657 Lusts Dominion i. iv. sig. B11 Alvero. Shall they thus tread thee down, which once were glad, To Lacquey by thy conquering Chariot wheeles. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 18 The whole of this is eternity,..that share of it that lackies it by the worlds side is time. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. 73 Intellect, that in the Throne should sit, Must lacky after Lust. a1677 T. Manton Christs Tempt. (1685) iv. 105 That his Power and Goodness should lacquey upon, and be at the beck of our idle and wanton humors. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 864 It being indecorous that this Divine..Power, should constantly lacquey by and attend upon Natural Generations. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. e3 He is a Foot-Poet, he Lacquies by the side of Virgil at the best, but never mounts behind him. 2. transitive. To wait upon as a lackey; to attend closely upon; to dance attendance upon. Chiefly transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend upon as servant [verb (transitive)] > as lackey lackey1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F2 Note no more, Vnlesse thou spy his fayre appendant whore That lackyes him. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 277 Elijah..had lacquaied his coach, and tooke a peaceable leaue at this Townes end. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 9 He..Lackeyes his letters, does what seruice else He would imploy his man in. 1646 R. Boyle in T. Birch Life in Wks. (1772) I. 29 I saw one poor rogue, lacqueyed by his wife. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 144 So many Dangers and Miseries lackeying them. 1764 C. Churchill Independence 4 I see Men..lacquey the heels of those Whom Genius ranks amongst her greatest foes. 1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 505 The syllable ty..came over in the suite of the Norman families of words, and lacqueys only its early connexions. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 671 Why should it lacquey unlearned opinion, and..submit to become the mere registry of popular judgment? 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 402 The artificial method proceeds from a principle the reverse of this, making the spirit lackey the form. 1881 Q. Rev. Apr. 319 He had lacqueyed and flattered Walpole. Derivatives ˈlackeying adj. and n. ΚΠ 1819 J. Keats King Stephen i. iv. 42 The generous Earl..with a sort of lackeying friendliness, Takes off the mighty frowning from his brow. 1843 T. CArlyle Let. 20 July in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1990) XVI. 303 Sound sleep for a few hours, and a lackey to awaken you at half past six. It is over now, all that lackeying, thank God! 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