(pl. -eys)
1
- a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant（尤指穿制服的）男仆, 侍从。
1.1
- derogatory a person who is obsequiously willing to obey or serve another person or group of people〈贬〉马屁精。
2
- （亦作lackey moth）a brownish European moth of woods and hedgerows, the caterpillars of which live communally in a silken tent on the food tree天幕蛾。
- ORIGIN: mid 19th cent.: from the resemblance of the coloured stripes of its caterpillars to a footman's livery.
2.1
- Malacosoma neustria, family Lasiocampidae.拉丁名Malacosoma neustria, 枯叶蛾科。
词源
early 16th cent.: from French laquais, perhaps from Catalan alacay, from Arabic al-ḵā'id 'the chief'.