| Serf (n.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia. Thesaurus Entries apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, clawback, concubine, courtier, creature, cringer, debt slave, dependent, dupe, fawner, feudatory, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, galley slave, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, homager, inferior, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, liege subject, mealymouth, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, peon, puppet, retainer, servant, slave, spaniel, stooge, subject, subordinate, suck, sycophant, theow, thrall, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, villein, yeoman, yes-man |