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Flunkey   Listen
noun
Flunky  n.  (pl. flunkies)  (Written also flunkey)  
1.
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
2.
One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
3.
One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. (Cant, U.S.)





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"Flunkey" Quotes from Famous Books



... P'raps he's goin' to offer to make me his secretary. But you don't seem at all alarmed at the prospect of my being carried off by a flunkey." ...
— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne
... has sat down on a marble seat in the shade of the trees, and is suspending his meditation for a moment to smile at a pretty child to whom a French bonne is pointing out the gorgeously dressed old gentleman; a flunkey in attendance on ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... even if you do discover him. Depend upon it the life you would lead under his eye would be one of constant restraint and worry. He'd put you to school again, no doubt, where you'd get banged as before—a system I don't approve of at all—and be made a milksop and a flunkey, or something o' that sort—whereas the life you'll lead with me will be a free and easy rollikin' manly sort o' life. Half on shore and half at sea. Do what you like, go where you will,—when business has ...
— The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands • R.M. Ballantyne
... the fitness of things that we should pay our respects to him." Accordingly the two set out together and reaching the palace proposed to send in their names. They were encountered by some kind of glorified flunkey, an official of the toy court of the principality—who assured Carlyle that it was impossible to present him to the Serene Transparency in the costume he was then wearing. Carlyle wanted sardonically ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... I shall pull through somehow," answered James. "I am not so ignorant on such matters as you may suppose. Geary used to say that I did the flunkey business better than any man he ever had at the Tabard: I have always been celebrated for my footmen. Of course I am quite aware that the real article is very different from its stage counterfeit, but ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 • Various
... with that purposeful dominating look on his face, and discovered a few specks of dust upon his favourite effigy. With a quick characteristic motion of the thumb resembling a stab he rings the bell. A flunkey instantly appears. "Bust that dust," says the WAR MINISTER. And then, correcting himself instantly, with a genial smile, "I should ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 17, 1920 • Various


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