Flunky

Definition: Flunky

Flunky

Noun

1. 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 "flunky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

Note: Flunky \Flun"ky\, noun; plural Flunkies. [Probably from or akin to flank.]. (references)

Synonyms: Flunky

Failure

Victim; bankrupt; flunker, flunky.

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.

Crosswords: Flunky

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of chanel number five, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Chanel No. 5, and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

So he had some staff flunky send me a fruit basket (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

So take your flunky and dangle (Miller's Crossing; writing credit: Joel Coen ; Ethan Coen)

Books

• Flunky (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Take Your Flunky and Dangle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Albanian

shërbëtor (attendant, bellboy, bellhop, Butler, commissionaire, domestic, flunkey, footman, groom, gyp, lackey, lacquey, man, manservant, menial, valet, Walla, yeoman), ndihmëskuzhinier (flunkey), lajkatar (adulatory, bootlicker, earthworm, flatterer, flunkey, honey-mouthed, lickspittle, obsequious, smooth tongued, soother, sycophant, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, wheedling). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خادم (attendant, boy, factotum, flunkey, footman, knave, lackey, livery, man, manservant, menial, page, retainer, servant, valet, vassal). (various references)

Czech

propadlík. (various references)

French

larbin (flunkey), laquas (flunkey). (various references)

German

Lakai (lackey, footman). (various references)

Greek 

υπηρέτησ με στολή. (various references)

Hebrew 

משרת (attendant, boy, factotum, flunkey, footman, manservant, official, servant, servitor). (various references)

Hungarian

lakáj (flunkey, lackey). (various references)

Indonesian

pelayan (chamberlain maid, servant, steward, usher). (various references)

Italian

tirapiedi (hanger-on, minion), servo in livrea (flunkey), servitore (flunkey, footman, retainer, servant), persona servile (flunkey), leccapiedi (toady). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鞄持ち (private secretary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かばんもち (private secretary). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkyflay.(various references)

Russian 

лакей (flunkey, footman, lackey), прислужник (acolyte, myrmidon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lakej (flunkey, lackey, lacquey). (various references)

Swedish

lakej (flunkey, footman, lackey). (various references)

Thai

ทาสรับใช้, คนประจบสอพลอ. (various references)

Turkish

uşak (body servant, do all, domestic help, factotum, flunkey, footman, helper, henchman, lackey, man, manservant, myrmidon, pursuivant, retainer, servant, servitor, valet, varlet, waiter), evet efendimci (flunkey, yes man), dalkavuk (adulator, adulatory, apple polisher, bootlicker, brown-nose, bumsucker, creeper, cringing, deadhead, flatterer, flunkey, groveler, groveller, lackey, minion, reptile, silky, soapy, sycophant, toadeating, toady, tufthunter, yes man). (various references)

Misspellings

"Flunky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Filenko, flanky, flonk, flouncy, flounk, flunck, flunkie, founky, frunky, funkuy, funkys, lunky, plunky. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fluky, flunk, funky.

-2 letters: funk, lunk, luny.

-3 letters: flu, fly, fun, yuk.

-4 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: flunkey.

+2 letters: flunkeys.

+4 letters: thankfully.