A person under the patronage or protection of another; a dependant; (sometimes) spec. a feudal vassal or retainer. Formerly also: †a person who…

A sniveller.

a dog for (also to) the bow: a well-trained dog attending a huntsman with a bow; hence used as the type of a humble or subservient person. Obsolete.

One who fawns, cringes, or flatters; a toady.

One who snivels or whines. Also in figurative context.

transferred. One who submits in a servile manner to the authority or dictation of another or others; a submissive or devoted servant.

figurative. A thing or person used as or likened to a footstool, esp. in being under the dominion or subjection of another.

As a derogatory term (esp. as a form of address): slave, underling. Obsolete.

An obedient or unquestioning follower.

A person who cringes; an obsequious or servile individual; a sycophant.

figurative. A low or contemptible person.

A person who habitually agrees with or assents to the proposals of a superior; an obsequious subordinate. Cf. yes-man, n.

One who crouches.

figurative. One who moves stealthily, timidly, or abjectly, or proceeds in a mean and servile way.

A mean, servile, or cringing person; a sneak; a shirk.

figurative. A submissive, cringing, or fawning person.

Apparently an error for sneak-up, n.

A servile person (in various senses of the adjective); a servant, a slave. Also with the and plural agreement: servile people collectively.

figurative. A meek, gentle, or naive person; a devotedly loyal or unquestioningly obedient person. Also: a sycophant or lackey. Cf. puppy, n. 2a.

A dependant or client (client, n. 1a). Obsolete.

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

A groveller.

= prostitute, n. 2.

figurative and in extended use. A person entirely or abjectly devoted to another; a ‘slave’. Cf. prostitute, v. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. A fawning flatterer, parasite, sycophant; = toady, n. 2.

One who grovels; chiefly figurative.

A cringing or servile person, a sycophant; a coward.

transferred and figurative. Moving timidly or abjectly; acting meanly or servilely; cringing. creeping Jesus, a person who slinks about or hides…

A servile parasite; a sycophant, an interested flatterer; also, a humble dependant; = toad-eater, n. 2.

One who truckles (in sense 2b of the verb).

figurative. (a) One who acts in a mean or servile way; (b) a lazy person, loiterer.

Applied contemptuously to a person who behaves obsequiously to persons above him in rank or position; a ‘lackey’, toady, snob.

figurative. Applied to a person upon whom people ‘wipe their boots’.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A navy or army officer's orderly or private servant; (in extended use) any flunkey, lackey, or minor bureaucrat; a…

U.S. (chiefly depreciative). A follower who works to further the interests of a politician or other powerful person, esp. one who is obsequious or…

A submissive or servile person.

= sense B.

transitive. To go in quest of, and convey or conduct back. The first part of the notion is often… to fetch and carry: literal chiefly of dogs (cf…

figurative. derogatory. Esp. in political contexts: a person who is obsequiously or unquestioningly willing to follow or obey another; a lackey.

A woman who habitually agrees with or assents to the proposals of a superior; an obsequiously deferential woman. Cf. yes-man, n., yes-girl, n.

An obsequious person; a flatterer, a sycophant, a toady.

A person who flatters another excessively or insincerely, esp. when intended to gain favour or advancement; a toady. Cf. arse-kisser, n.

colloquial (typically depreciative). An obsequious subordinate; esp. one who seeks to gain favour or advancement.

A servile assistant or follower; a lackey, a hanger-on. Now chiefly Canadian.