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flunkeyism

flunkeyism is the alternative form of flunkyism.

Meaning of flunkyism

Noun

flunkyism (countable and uncountable, plural flunkyisms)

  1. The state of being a flunkey
    • This action of the English Regicides did in effect strike a damp like death through the heart of Flunkyism universally in this world1648, Thomas Carlyle, Death Warrant

Origin of flunkeyism

From flunkey + -ism.

Questions about flunkeyism

What is flunkeyism the alternative form of?
Flunkeyism is the alternative form of flunkyism.

Words near flunkeyism in the dictionary

  1. flunkers
  2. flunkey
  3. flunkeydom
  4. flunkeyhood
  5. flunkeyish
  6. flunkeyism
  7. flunkeyistic
  8. flunkeys
  9. flunkie
  10. flunkies
  11. flunking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flunkeyism (page history and authors); flunkyism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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