eyeservant
English
Etymology
eye + servant
Noun
eyeservant (plural eyeservants)
- A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eyeservant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)