The meaning of Lackey

noun

A person employed to provide a service to the public in a particular place.

Usage examples:

A cloakroom attendant

adjective

Occurring with or as a result of.

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The sea and its attendant attractions

noun

Someone whose job is to help others in a particular place or situation

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A gas station/parking lot attendant

noun

The chief manservant of a house.

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In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-…

noun

The most important male servant in a house

Usage examples:

The british butler was brilliantly played by anthony hopkins.

adjective

Relating to the running of a home or to family relations.

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Domestic chores

noun

A person who is paid to help with cleaning and other menial tasks in a person's home.

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Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young prima…

noun

A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.

noun

A person made to do hard menial or dull work.

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I felt like a household drudge

verb

Do hard menial work.

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Her husband was drudging in the smoke of london

noun

A person who has to work hard at boring and unpleasant tasks and who is not respected by other people

Usage examples:

I feel like a real drudge - i've done nothing but clean all day!

noun

An officer of the british royal household who attends or assists members of the royal family.

Usage examples:

He became equerry to the duke of kent

noun

An officer who works for a particular member of a royal family to help in their official duties

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An equerry to the queen

noun

An employee who does all kinds of work.

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He was employed as the general factotum

noun

A person employed to do all types of jobs for someone

Usage examples:

He became a sort of general factotum for the band.

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

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Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

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He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A liveried servant whose duties include admitting visitors and waiting at table.

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An army of servants - maids, footmen, cooks and gardeners - made the luxurious lifestyle of the fam…

noun

A male servant whose job includes opening doors and serving food, and who often wears a uniform

noun

A boy or man employed to undertake domestic duties.

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I wouldn't mind getting a primer from some reputable person with experience running houseboys, or h…

noun

A male servant.

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He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put…

noun

A male servant with responsibility for the personal needs of his employer, such as preparing his food and clothes

noun

One or both sides of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of bound sheets.

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A book of not less than 40 pages

verb

Look through the pages of (a book, magazine, etc.).

Usage examples:

She was paging through a pile of sunday newspapers

verb

Summon (someone) over a public address system, so as to pass on a message.

Usage examples:

No need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge

noun

A thing that holds something in place.

Usage examples:

A guitar string retainer

noun

An amount of money that you pay to someone in advance so that the person will work for you when needed

Usage examples:

He was on a $150,000 retainer from lloyd's of london.

noun

An amount of money that you pay to a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. in order to be sure that they can work for you when you need them to

Usage examples:

The firm retained white as a consultant, paying him a $5,000 retainer., get/be on/receive a retaine…

noun

A servant assigned the most menial kitchen tasks.

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Simnel, a mere pawn, was pardoned and set to work as a scullion in the royal kitchens, living out t…

noun

Someone employed to do unskilled jobs in a kitchen in the past

noun

A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

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Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

noun

A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

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A civil/public servant

noun

A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks.

Usage examples:

I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy

verb

Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.

Usage examples:

I was skivvying for that brixton family

noun

A person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning

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He treats me like a skivvy., i wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money., skivvy …

noun

A person employed to look after the passengers on a ship, aircraft, or train.

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Arriving passengers greet their cabin stewards and table waiters like long-lost family friends with…

verb

Short for shop steward.

noun

A person who is responsible for an event or for the management of a place

Usage examples:

A race steward, he has been a careful steward of our parks.

noun

A man's personal male attendant, who is responsible for his clothes and appearance.

Usage examples:

These butlers, footmen, valets, drivers, personal assistants, and bodyguards knew where the bodies …

verb

Act as a valet to (a particular man).

Usage examples:

One evening when i was valeting him, mr charles told me he had met my father

noun

(esp. in the past) the personal male servant of a wealthy man, or (in the present) an employee of a restaurant or hotel, who puts your car in a parking space for you

Usage examples:

Valet parking is available for our customers.

noun

A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

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Liege homage involved the vassal admitting his obligation to pay all services, including the provis…

noun

A person in the middle ages who promises to be loyal to a lord (= a man of high social rank) who will protect him or her