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flunky
noun
a person assigned to assist or perform menial jobs UK, 1855
In the US, originally a work camp waiter or assistant cook, and usually not quite as harsh as Partridge’s “parasite” or “toady”.- [A]ll I could do around his people was to be a flunkey and get kicked in the mouth. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 89, 1945
- The flunky recognized my voice from last night and was a little more polite. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 72, 1951
- The flunkies (waiters) rushed more food to the table, refills of the original dishes. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 392, 1953
- One stud got juiced and played the flunky, to a very surprised old Brazilian monkey. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 17, 1959
- I had two or three flunkies after I’d been there for a month. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 144, 1965
- A West Indian messman–Issac was his name–had told me never to take shit from anybody on board or I’d become a flunky. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 191, 1967
- He was saying that the administration man he was working with was a “kirk too, or flunky, or whatever.” — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 140, 1968
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