lackey
noun/ˈlæki/
/ˈlæki/
- (old-fashioned) a servant
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- (disapproving) a person who is treated like a servant or who behaves like one
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-qā'id ‘the chief’.
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