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    flun·ky
    [ˈfləNGkē]
    noun
    flunkey (noun)
    1. a liveried manservant or footman.
      • a person who performs relatively menial tasks for someone else, especially obsequiously:
        "a flunky was soon dispatched to sweet-talk the staff"
    Origin
    mid 18th century (originally Scots): perhaps from flank in the sense ‘a person who stands at one's flank’.
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    noun
    1. a liveried manservant or footman.
      lackey
      steward
      butler
      footman
      valet
      retainer
      attendant
      factotum
      houseboy
      page
      liveried manservant
      liveried servant
     
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    Person who exhibits slavish or unquestioning obedience
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    A flunkey is a person who exhibits slavish or unquestioning obedience, often doing menial or trivial work for someone important or powerful. thefreedictionary.com 1 2 3

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    A flunkey is a person of slavish or unquestioning obedience, a lackey, or a liveried manservant. Find out the origin, translations, and examples of this pejorative term in English …
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    (disapproving) a person who tries to please someone who is important and powerful by doing small jobs for them The secretary arrived, surrounded by the usual subservient flunkeys. …
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    flun•key (flung′ kē), n., pl. -keys. flunky. flun′key•ism, n. flun•ky or flun•key /ˈflʌŋki/ n. [ countable], pl. -kies or -keys. an assistant who does menial work. yes-man. flun•ky…
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    What does a flunky do?
    A flunky's job is to do whatever he or she is told to do, preferably without question, in a docile, dutiful way. A mob boss or other criminal mastermind might send flunkies out to do his dirty work, while in the old days a typical flunky was a footman or butler — a servant.

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    Define flunkey. flunkey synonyms, flunkey pronunciation, flunkey translation, English dictionary definition of flunkey. also flun·key n. pl. flun·kies also flun·keys 1. A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey. 2. One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge....

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    What is a flunky order?
    The flunky is given orders by various members of the family which he must carry out. This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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    How many senses does a flunky have?
    Your flunky should have known smoking was hazardous to his health," Joe told Starkey. 3 senses: 1. a servile or fawning person 2. a person who performs menial tasks 3. usually derogatory a manservant in livery.... Click for more definitions.

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    Why did Yalta call a flunkey?
    Now he must see us, as we saw him and his smooth, smug, flunkey's face to the whites of its upturned eyes! The flunkey in the hall was evidently expecting his arrival. Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey.

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