lackey英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A footman, a liveried male servant.

— 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.
A fawning, servile follower.

— The latest act in the Madness of King Donald drama playing globally on every channel underlined the increasingly delusional world the anti-hero inhabits, his fantasies fed and indulged by a cast of sycophants, lackeys and straight grifters, all in it for what they can get.

动词 v.

To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously. transitive

— [T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.

Comus
To toady, play the flunky. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

lackeys plural lacquey alternative lacky alternative lackeys present,singular,third-person lackeying participle,present lackeyed participle,past lackeyed past lacquey alternative lacky alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

lackey caterpillar lackeydom lackeyism lackey moth lackeyship unlackeyed

词源

词源 1

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 الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.

词源 2

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 الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.