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Definition: Flunkey |
FlunkeyNoun1. A male servant (especially a footman). 2. A person of unquestioning obedience. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flunkey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Flunkey A livery servant. (Old French, flanquier, a henchman.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FlunkeySynonyms: dweeb (n), flunky (n), lackey (n), stooge (n), yes-man (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servant | Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Flunkey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flunkey" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "flunkey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shërbëtor (attendant, bellboy, bellhop, Butler, commissionaire, domestic, flunky, footman, groom, gyp, lackey, lacquey, man, manservant, menial, valet, Walla, yeoman), ndihmëskuzhinier (flunky), lajkatar (adulatory, bootlicker, earthworm, flatterer, flunky, honey-mouthed, lickspittle, obsequious, smooth tongued, soother, sycophant, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, wheedling). (various references) | |
Arabic | خادم (attendant, boy, factotum, flunky, footman, knave, lackey, livery, man, manservant, menial, page, retainer, servant, valet, vassal), إمعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лакей (footman, lackey, tiger). (various references) | |
French | larbin (flunky). (various references) | |
German | Lakai (lackey, footman). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משרת (attendant, boy, factotum, flunky, footman, manservant, official, servant, servitor), זחלן (dawdler, sluggard, toady). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lakáj (flunky, lackey). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penjilat (bootlicker, hang-dog, tuft-hunter). (various references) | |
Italian | servo in livrea (flunky), servitore (flunky, footman, retainer, servant), persona servile (flunky), leccapiedi (toady), lacchè (footman, lackey, lacquey). (various references) | |
Manx | guilley drid (bellboy, boots, buttons, errand boy, fag, footman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unkeyflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoa servil (menial, spaniel), lacaio (footman, galley-slave, groom, jackal, jockey, lackey, lacquey, menial), bajulador (adulator, courtier, flatterer, fulsome, groveller, lickspittle, smarmy, smooth, toad-eater, toady, truckler), adulador (adulatory, creeping, fawning, flatterer, groveller, lackey, lacquey, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, smarmy, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sugary, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, truckler, tuft-hunter, unctuous). (various references) | |
Romanian | snob (dude, high-brow, pretentious, snob, squirt), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), lingãu (bootlicker, boot-licker, glutton, lickspittle, minion, sponge, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toady), licheluţã, lacheu (footman, lackey, lacquey, liveryman), cãţel (cub, doggie, doggy, pup, puppy, toady, whelp, young dog). (various references) | |
Russian | лакей (footman, lackey), подхалим (bootlicker, groveller, truckler). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lakej (flunky, lackey, lacquey). (various references) | |
Spanish | lacayo (footman, lackey), adulador (adulator, adulatory, bootlicker, fawning, flatterer). (various references) | |
Swedish | lakej (footman, lackey). (various references) | |
Turkish | uşak (body servant, do all, domestic help, factotum, flunky, footman, helper, henchman, lackey, man, manservant, myrmidon, pursuivant, retainer, servant, servitor, valet, varlet, waiter), evet efendimci (flunky, yes man), dalkavuk (adulator, adulatory, apple polisher, bootlicker, brown-nose, bumsucker, creeper, cringing, deadhead, flatterer, flunky, groveler, groveller, lackey, minion, reptile, silky, soapy, sycophant, toadeating, toady, tufthunter, yes man). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | підлабузник (back scratcher, bootlicker, camp follower, crawler, earthworm, groveller, onhanger, reptile, sneak, zany). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flunkey": flunkeys. (additional references) | |
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"Flunkey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flanky, Funkee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-k-l-n-u-y" | |
-1 letter: flukey, flunky. | |
-2 letters: fluke, fluky, flunk, funky. | |
-3 letters: fley, flue, fuel, funk, fyke, kune, leku, lune, lunk, luny, neuk, nuke, yelk, yeuk, yule. | |
-4 letters: elf, elk, fen, feu, fey, flu, fly, fun, kef, ken, key, kue, lek, leu, ley, lye, uke, yen, yuk. | |
-5 letters: ef, el, en, ne, nu, un, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-k-l-n-u-y" | |
+1 letter: flunkeys. | |
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