See lackey on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "lackey caterpillar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "lackey moth"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "laquais"
},
"expansion": "Middle French laquais",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pro",
"3": "lacai"
},
"expansion": "Old Occitan lacai",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "es",
"3": "lacayo"
},
"expansion": "Spanish lacayo",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "lacchè"
},
"expansion": "Italian lacchè",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "el",
"3": "λακές"
},
"expansion": "Greek λακές (lakés)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tr",
"3": "ulak"
},
"expansion": "Turkish ulak",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "French",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ca",
"3": "alacay"
},
"expansion": "Catalan alacay",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ar",
"3": "قَاضٍ",
"4": "اَلْقَاضِي",
"5": "magistrate"
},
"expansion": "Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “magistrate”)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek λακές (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Catalan alacay, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “magistrate”). See French laquais.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lackeys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lackey (plural lackeys)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 15 32 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 33 1 34",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 198:",
"text": "My dearest father,—I say nothing of them,—but I dare to speak of myself,—I can never be a monk,—if that is your object—spurn me,—order your lacqueys to drag me from this carriage,—leave me a beggar in the streets to cry “fire and water,”—but do not make me a monk.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31:",
"text": "St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A footman, a liveried male servant."
],
"id": "en-lackey-en-noun-W0wJKb-p",
"links": [
[
"footman",
"footman"
],
[
"liveried",
"livery"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lake"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵādim",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَادِمْ"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "spasavor",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "սպասավոր"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "lakjéj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ljókaj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"dated",
"masculine"
],
"word": "лёкай"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lakéj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacai"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "奴僕"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "núpú",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "奴仆"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "僕役"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "púyì",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "仆役"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "僕人"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "púrén",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "仆人"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lokaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lakaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakei"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "lakei"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "lakeija"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "laquais"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "lakia",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "ლაქია"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lakai"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakés",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λακές"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypirétis",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "υπηρέτης"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "lakáj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "inas"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "komornyik"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gíománach"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacchè"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"alt": "じゅうぼく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jūboku",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "従僕"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"alt": "下人",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hain",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "하인"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jong",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "종"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakijs"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "liokajus"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lakej",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лакеј"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "tonotono"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakei"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nokar",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "نوکر"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "pâdow",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "پادو"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lokaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacaio"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacheu"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lakéj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "лакеј"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakej"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lokaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacayo"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lakej"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kon-chái",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "คนใช้"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kîi-kâa",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "ขี้ข้า"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lakéj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lʹókaj",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"tags": [
"dated",
"masculine"
],
"word": "льо́кай"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "liveried male servant",
"word": "đầy tớ"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 15 32 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 33 1 34",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fawning, servile follower."
],
"id": "en-lackey-en-noun-HtmRH0fY",
"links": [
[
"fawning",
"fawn"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lickspittle"
},
{
"word": "loyal follower"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "xalúj",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "халу́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "lakjéj",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "prýxvascjenʹ",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пры́хвасцень"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǒugǒu",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "走狗"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǒutuǐzi",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "狗腿子"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǒuzú",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "走卒"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "núcái",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "奴才"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lakaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakei"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "slaafje"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "voetvaag"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "laquais"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lakai"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "lakáj"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "talpnyaló"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "csatlós"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "szolgalélek"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "höfðingjasleikja"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leccaculo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "lacchè"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lecchino"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"alt": "そうく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sōku",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "走狗"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"alt": "走狗",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jugu",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "주구"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "potrčko",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "потрчко"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakei"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sługus"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "przydupas"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacaio"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacheu"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xolúj",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "холу́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lakéj",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лаке́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "príxvostenʹ",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "при́хвостень"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacayo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "lakej"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "alipores"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a fawning, servile follower",
"word": "tuta"
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"ref": "c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
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"ref": "1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:",
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlæ.ki/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lackey.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lackey.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lackey.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lackey.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lackey.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æki"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lacquey"
},
{
"word": "lacky"
}
],
"word": "lackey"
}
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