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- US informal the person who does the boring physical work in a company: office flunky Freddy is considered the office flunkey.
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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.
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)
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.
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.
FLUNKY meaning: 1. the person who does the boring physical work in a company: 2. a male servant wearing a uniform…. Learn more.
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.
Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey. My inexperience, my appearance—so unlike a flunkey—and my illness, seemed to her pitiful and excited her disgust. Flunkey definition: flunky. . See examples of FLUNKEY used in a sentence.
