flunky
or flun·key
a male servant in livery.
an assistant who does menial work.
a toady; yes-man.
Origin of flunky
1Other words from flunky
- flun·ky·ism, noun
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How to use flunky in a sentence
Let him fill the seats at his side with the oligarchs and flunkies he pays so well and not the leaders of the free world.
She got one of her palace flunkies to check it out—and I was right!
The Best Bits From the Secret Ava Gardner Conversations | Filipa Ioannou | July 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe record proves positively that as criminals scientists are flunkies without a single recorded exception.
If we were a race of flunkies, ample opportunities had been afforded to have our flunky-ism whipped out of us.
Hence, a full-fledged aristocrat attracts flunkies as a magnet draws iron filings.
The Arena | Various
And a couple of flunkies in long-tailed coats and knee breeches and white wigs are mooning round, fixing things up ship shape.
Sundry Accounts | Irvin S. CobbHe's a palace at home, and powdered flunkies; and if he don't stay there, you bet he knows the reason why!
The Ebb-Tide | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne
British Dictionary definitions for flunky
flunkey
/ (ˈflʌŋkɪ) /
a servile or fawning person
a person who performs menial tasks
usually derogatory a manservant in livery
Origin of flunky
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