Flunky

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  • noun. A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.
  • noun. One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.
  • noun. A liveried manservant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A male servant in livery: used in contempt.
  • noun. Hence One who is mean and base-spirited; a cringing flatterer and servile imitator of those above him in rank or position; a toady; a snob.
  • noun. In the United States, among stock-brokers, a person who, from inexperience, makes bad investments or loses his money.
  • noun. A cabin waiter on a passenger-vessel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
  • noun. One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
  • noun. One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sycophant; a servant or hanger-on who is kept for their loyalty or muscle rather than their intellect.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a male servant (especially a footman)
  • noun. a person of unquestioning obedience
    • Word Usage
    "Thackeray's studies of the flunky are capital; but he studies him _qua flunky_, as a naturalist might study an animal, and hardly ranks him _sub specie humanitatis_."
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