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flunkie

flunkie is the alternative form of flunkey.

Meaning of flunkey

Noun

flunkey (plural flunkeys or flunkies)

  1. (derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
    • “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers'...1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster
  2. An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.

Forms of flunkie

pluralflunkies

Questions about flunkie

What is flunkie the alternative form of?
Flunkie is the alternative form of flunkey.

Words near flunkie in the dictionary

  1. flunkeyhood
  2. flunkeyish
  3. flunkeyism
  4. flunkeyistic
  5. flunkeys
  6. flunkie
  7. flunkies
  8. flunking
  9. flunking out
  10. flunkout
  11. flunkouts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flunkie (page history and authors); flunkey (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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