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- flunkey [ fluhng -kee ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA noun, plural flun·keys. flunky.
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There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun flunkey. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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.
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.
Definition of flunkey noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and 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.
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.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun flunkey. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in U.S. English.
