- a variation of flunky.
flunkey
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flunkeys
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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
When Deputies straggled back to their desks, they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Yes, you are a flunkey; a true flunkey.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
At each side of podium stand Concertgebouw flunkeys, eyes popping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men are great by their faculties, not in their flunkeys.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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