单词 | unlackeyed |
释义 | † unlackeyedadj. Obsolete. Not attended by a lackey or lackeys. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > of or relating to lackey > attended by lackeys > not unlackeyed1785 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 652 To her who, frugal only that her thrift May feed excesses she can ill afford, Is hackney'd home unlacquey'd. 1843 North of Eng. Mag. May 385 Restraint sat upon the rustic, in presence of the noble, which would have been banished in the welcome afforded to a lone, unlackeyed traveller. 1905 Atlantic Monthly May 578/1 Charles the First and Mary Stuart on their scaffolds..and many another pageant of human love and sacrifice, are treasured up by other peoples as we have treasured up this crude, unlackeyed martyrdom [sc. the assassination of Lincoln]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1785 |
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