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    [Adjective]  | "sub*ser*vi*ent" | \ səb-ˈsər-vē-ənt \


    1: useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate

    2: serving to promote some end

    3: obsequiously submissive : truckling


    Origin: circa 1626 ;

     Latin subservient-, subserviens, present participle of subservire see: {subserve };

    [Adjective]  | "subservient" 


    1: very willing to obey someone else;


      * e.g., " ... She was an equal partner in the marriage and not a subservient wife. "





    2: having a less important role, job, or place as something else;


      * e.g., " ... The employees used to build things by hand but now were subservient to automated equipment that handled much of production. "





     [ "subservient" ]

    1: 1)Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

      * e.g.,  ... 1)"Slaves are subservient to their owners." 


     [ "subservient" ]

    2: 2)Less important, subordinate.

      * e.g.,  ... 2)His career was expected to be subservient to hers." 


     [ "subservient" ]

    3: 3)Serving as a means to an end.

      * e.g.,  ... 3)"The whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights" 

     [ "subservience" ]

    1: willingness to obey others unquestioningly

      * e.g.,  ... The subservience trainee moved up. 

     [ "subservient chicken" ]

    1: A bizarre advertising stunt pulled by Burger King, where you 'control' a giant rooster-man wearing a garter belt.

      * e.g.,  ... "The subservient chicken is strange as hell, and did not make me any hungrier for chicken." 


     [ "subservient chicken" ]

    2: Through the eyes of its 'webcam', you can throw any command you like, from 'jump', to 'watch tv', to 'hump the couch'.


     [ "subservient chicken" ]

    3: www.subservientchicken.com

     [ "subservient chicken" ]

    1: A retarded chicken that is misleadingly made out to be a "live broadcast" when it is actually pre-recorded. It can pick out words in the middle of junk, like "fjkdlfakjljfkjumpfjkdlfjad" (look in the middle, you'll see "jump"), yet cannot understand "L I G H T S - O F F" (it will understand "lights off"). The only reason I don't diss this completely is because Nikita likes it, and cuz I'm crazy about her... oops, I shouldn't be saying that where she can see it. Oh well.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hi I'm A Retarded Subservient Chicken" 

     [ "Subservient Chicken" ]

    1: Note: The above definition is old. I do not like Nikita anymore - not even as a friend!

      * e.g.,  ... Kwih. Kwih. 

     [ "Subservient Retard" ]

    1: See Subservient Chicken

      * e.g.,  ... Is that a Subservient Chicken or a Subservient Retard? 

     [ "subservientism" ]

    1: A regressive political ideology where members serve as willing instruments of the state to restrict or abolish specific personal liberties in order to accomplish a set of goals, which are often endorsed as altruistic to humanity but are inversely detrimental in practice. See: Subservientist

      * e.g.,  ... The activists believed their subservientism would save more lives if everyone gave up their right to defend themselves. 

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