Synonyms of the word

lackey

• n. A footman, a liveried male servant.
• n. A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
• v. (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.

adulator

• n. One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery, one who adulates.

crawler

• n. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
• n. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
• n. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
• n. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
• n. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

flatterer

• n. One who flatters.

flunkey

• n. An underling; a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working…
• n. One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
• n. One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.].

flunky

• n. A sycophant; a servant or hanger-on who is kept for his loyalty or muscle rather than his intellect.

retainer

• n. Any thing or person that retains.
• n. A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
• n. A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
• n. A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
• n. (dentistry) A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.

servant

• n. One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to…
• n. One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
• v. (obsolete) To subject.

sycophant

• n. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
• n. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
• n. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
• v. (transitive) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
• v. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

toady

• n. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
• n. (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).