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Flunky

noun
(pl. flunkies)  (Written also flunkey)
1.
A male servant (especially a footman).  Synonyms: flunkey, lackey.
2.
A person of unquestioning obedience.  Synonyms: flunkey, stooge, yes-man.






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"Flunky" Quotes from Famous Books



... it clean, its gall will burn wherever it falls, and set the place a blazing. To keep friends with such a cast of mind, whose motto is Nelson's, you must do your duty; never mind if you sink a shicer, bottom your shaft any how. You are his enemy if you are or play the flunky; he will call you a 'thing,' and has a decided contempt for 'incapables.' Hence, his energy was never abated, though the whole legion of Victorian red-tape wanted to dry his inkstand, and smother his lamp in gaol. That there are too many fools at large, he knows, because ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello



Words linked to "Flunky" :   follower, pushover, servant, retainer



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