Meaning of FLUNKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'flungkee
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- [n] a person of unquestioning obedience
- [n] a male servant (especially a footman)
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| | Synonyms: | | dweeb, flunkey, lackey, stooge, yes-man |
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| | See Also: | | follower, pushover, retainer, servant | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flun"ky\, n.; pl. {Flunkies}. [Prob. fr. or akin to
flank.] [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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| | Related Terms: | | adherent, appendage, apple-polisher, ass-licker, attendant, backscratcher, backslapper, blue-collar worker, bootlick, bootlicker, breadwinner, brownie, brown-nose, buff, casual, casual laborer, cavaliere servente, clawback, cog, common laborer, commonality, commonalty, courtier, creature, cringer, dangler, day laborer, dependent, disciple, dummy, dupe, employee, factory worker, fan, fawner, feudatory, figurehead, flatterer, follower, following, footlicker, footman, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, gillie, goon, groveler, hand, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, hoi polloi, homager, homme de cour, industrial worker, inferior, instrument, jackal, jobber, jobholder, junior, kowtower, laborer, laboring man, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, lightweight, liveried servant, lower class, lower orders, man, masses, mealymouth, menial, migrant, minion, moiler, myrmidon, navvy, office temporary, parasite, partisan, pawn, peon, proletarian, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, retainer, roustabout, salaried worker, satellite, second fiddle, secondary, sectary, self-employed person, serf, servant, shadow, slave, spaniel, stiff, stooge, subaltern, subordinate, successor, suck, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, temporary, third stringer, thug, timeserver, toad, toady, toiler, tool, trainbearer, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, ward heeler, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yeoman, yes-man |
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