Synonyms for flunkey
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fluhng-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflʌŋ ki |
Top 10 synonyms for flunkey Other synonyms for the word flunkey
Définition of flunkey
Origin :- also flunkey, 1782, Scottish dialect, "footman, liveried servant," of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive variant of flanker. Sense of "flatterer, toady" first recorded 1855.
- As in lackey : noun servant
- As in adulator : noun sycophant
- As in flatterer : noun complimenter
- Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- At the same moment a flunkey in chocolate and cream approached him.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- I was just entering Rasputin's room at the palace when a flunkey told me the news.
- Extract from : « The Minister of Evil » by William Le Queux
- Your dream and rest is over; for are you not the general's flunkey?
- Extract from : « On the Heels of De Wet » by The Intelligence Officer
- The ancient wig of the judge is often indistinguishable from the old wig of the flunkey.
- Extract from : « A Miscellany of Men » by G. K. Chesterton
- The flunkey referred her to Count Rechberg, the aide-de-camp on duty.
- Extract from : « The Magnificent Montez » by Horace Wyndham
- And of course he could not exist, unless he had flunkey customers by the dozen.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
- "The lumberjacks want no flunkey, but the real thing," as one expressed it.
- Extract from : « The Lumberjack Sky Pilot » by Thomas D. Whittles
- Ted had taken a flunkey's job at Crestwood two days after he graduated.
- Extract from : « Double Challenge » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- The flunkey in the hall was evidently expecting his arrival.
- Extract from : « The Fall of a Nation » by Thomas Dixon
Antonyms for flunkey
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