- a variation of flunky.
flunkey
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“Whether the leak came from The London Clinic, or from a flunkey who had been loose-lipped, remains unclear,” the Ephraim Hardcastle column said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
He most notably featured on several Coen brothers films, including playing a studio flunkey in Barton Fink, a gangster in Miller’s Crossing, and a private investigator in the Big Lebowski.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2016
He has called himself "chief choreboy," "high-toned flunkey," "official spokesman," "official adviser," but he holds no legal post from which he can be kicked out.
From Time Magazine Archive
As its portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shedding his coat and hat and taking a ticket from a flunkey, on whose chest there was a line of ribbons, he looked across the long vista of intervening space to the dining room.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
Still, some of the flunkeys are wearing pretty frocks so it’s all alright then.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2019
Known as flunkeys, they would walk on to the stage with stately ceremony, bow to the dancers, offer the flowers, step back, bow again and walk off with the same choreographed deliberation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2014
The Queen has pots of money, flunkeys galore, a penchant for calling rabbits "bunny-wunnies" and no imagination whatsoever.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2012
Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway.
From Time Magazine Archive
Look at flunkeys, for instance—decent chaps enough, some on ’em, till they gets a bit o’ lace on their hats, and then they’re as proud on it as a fresh-moulted cockatoo.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville
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