Definitions for lackey

lackey lack·ey

Spelling: [lak-ee]
IPA: /ˈlæk i/

Lackey is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in lackey (acekly).

Definitions for lackey

noun

  1. a servile follower; toady.
  2. a footman or liveried manservant.

verb (used with object)

  1. to attend as a lackey does.

Origin of lackey

1520-30; Middle French laquais, perhaps Catalan lacayo, alacayo

Examples for lackey

Opposition leaders criticized him for being a Kremlin lackey.

You talk glibly of ruining—but then you talk to a groom and lackey.

Last term Netanyahu gave the post to his lackey Yuval Steinitz, who was never heard from again.

To let the lackey live would be to have the bargelli in the house by morning.

Most important, his people do not see him as a lackey of the United States.

The lackey who was summoned did not know where the lady might be found, nor when she might return to Paris.

When Wayne returns, the U.S. government sends its lackey Superman to pound some sense into Batman.

A lackey had been discharged for some cause or other, and it was believed he had taken it.

A buck-naked Jamal—don't ask—is dealing with the lackey by beating him in a bathroom.

She paused, however, and, turning to the lackey who followed at her heels.

Word Value for lackey
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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