Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun, plural flun·kies.
- a male servant in livery.
- an assistant who does menial work.
- a toady; yes-man.
noun plural flunkies or flunkeys
- a servile or fawning person
- a person who performs menial tasks
- usually derogatory a manservant in livery
also flunkey, 1782, Scottish dialect, “footman, liveried servant,” of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive variant of flanker. Sense of “flatterer, toady” first recorded 1855.