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Mendicant vs Lackey - What's the difference?

mendicant | lackey |

As nouns the difference between mendicant and lackey

is that mendicant is a pauper who lives by begging while lackey is a footman, a liveried male servant.

As an adjective mendicant

is depending on alms for a living.

As a verb lackey is

to attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.

mendicant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Depending on alms for a living.
  • Of or pertaining to a beggar.
  • Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pauper who lives by begging.
  • A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
  • lackey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (verb only)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A footman, a liveried male servant.
  • A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
  • Derived terms

    * lackey caterpillar * lackey moth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously
  • * Milton
  • A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
  • (obsolete) To toady, play the flunky
  • References

    * "lackey." Online Etymology Dictionary. 2008