The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flunky \Flun"ky\ (fl[u^][ng]"k[y^]), n.; pl. Flunkies (fl[u^][ng]"k[i^]z). [Prob. fr. or akin to flank.] [Written also flunkey.]
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "flunkies".
They were the flunkies who had brought their mistresses' diamonds, emeralds and rubies to be sewn onto bodices or headdresses or whatever, and would not depart until they took the gem-finished goods with them.
Then the doors flew open and flunkies in sumptuous attire marched inside and blew mighty blasts on trumpets.
The hotel, like the palace, had flunkies to dash forward and take charge of the guests' private vehicles, and lead them off to some coach house somewhere.
Every dish that was brought by the table flunkies, the marquis first sampled, then, if he approved, said, "Here, ma chère Adi, you may have some of this," and himself put the helping onto her plate.
I read history books all the way home on the tube and right up until Dunworthy's flunkies came to take me to St.
One of the flunkies handed me a test paper and the other one called time.
He flattened himself in the dust as a fresh crew of flunkies rushed to unroll a long purple rug about two-and-a-half feet wide.
The set of flunkies that handled the purple rug sprang into action and rolled it up behind the king as he neared the car.
First the king, then a bunch of flunkies rolling the rug up about two steps behind him, then a new bunch unrolling another rug, then the captain walking along about two steps behind them.
The Iraqis sent a delegation led by 'Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, one of Saddam's longtime Ba'thist flunkies, and accompanied by none other than 'All Hassan al-Majid, whose treatment of the Kurds had earned him the sobriquet "Chemical 'Ali.
In the case of UNSCOM, the College of Commissioners--a group of twenty made up of either disarmament experts or political flunkies as chosen by their governments--had only an advisory role and even then were fairly disruptive.
In the case of UNSCOM, the College of Commissioners—a group of twenty made up of either disarmament experts or political flunkies as chosen by their governments—had only an advisory role and even then were fairly disruptive.