Lackey vs Assistant - What's the difference?
lackey | assistant | Synonyms |
To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously
* Milton
(obsolete) To toady, play the flunky
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
As nouns the difference between lackey and assistant
is that lackey is a footman, a liveried male servant while assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.As a verb lackey
is to attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.As an adjective assistant is
having a subordinate or auxiliary position.lackey
English
Alternative forms
* (verb only)Derived terms
* lackey caterpillar * lackey mothVerb
(en verb)- A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
References
*"lackey."Online Etymology Dictionary. 2008
assistant
English
Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable.