The difference between Lackey and Sycophant
When used as nouns, lackey means a footman, a liveried male servant, whereas sycophant means one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
When used as verbs, lackey means to attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously, whereas sycophant means to inform against.
check bellow for the other definitions of Lackey and Sycophant
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Lackey as a noun:
A footman, a liveried male servant.
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Lackey as a noun:
A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.
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Lackey as a verb (transitive):
To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously
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Lackey as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To toady, play the flunky
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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Sycophant as a noun (obsolete):
An informer; a talebearer.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.