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noun
- 1. a liveried manservant or footman. derogatory Similar
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FLUNKY definition: 1. the person who does the boring physical work in a company: 2. a male servant wearing a uniform…. Learn more.
If you refer to someone as a flunkey, you disapprove of the fact that they associate themselves with someone who is powerful and carry out small, unimportant jobs for them in the hope of being rewarded.
Definitions of flunkey. noun. a person of unquestioning obedience. synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man. see more. noun. a male servant (especially a footman) synonyms: flunky, lackey. see more.
a person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer: He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it. (Definition of flunky from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
A flunky is someone who works obediently for another person. You might apply for a job as a personal assistant, only to realize during the interview that it's really a job as a flunky. A flunky's job is to do whatever he or she is told to do, preferably without question, in a docile, dutiful way.
1. a. : a liveried servant. b. : one performing menial or miscellaneous duties. 2. : yes-man. Synonyms. daily [ British] domestic. lackey. menial. retainer. servant. steward. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of flunky in a Sentence.
Definition of flunkey noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Flunkey definition: flunky. . See examples of FLUNKEY used in a sentence.
a. a person who obeys superiors in a servile, cringing way. b. US. a person with very minor or menial tasks.
flunkey. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English flun‧key, flunky /ˈflʌŋki/ noun [ countable] informal someone who does small jobs for an important person, especially someone who does this because they are trying to please the person – used to show disapproval One of his flunkeys let me in.
