Usually means: Subordinate performing menial tasks, servant.
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  1. flunkey: Merriam-Webster
  2. flunkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flunkey: Collins English Dictionary
  4. flunkey: Vocabulary.com
  5. flunkey: Wordnik
  6. flunkey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. flunkey: Wiktionary
  8. flunkey: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. flunkey: Dictionary.com
  10. flunkey: Rhymezone
  11. Flunkey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. flunkey: FreeDictionary.org
  13. flunkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. flunkey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. flunkey: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  16. flunkey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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noun:  (derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
noun:  An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.

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