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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flunkey /ˈflʌŋki/ (also flunky)

▶noun (pl. flunkeys or flunkies) chiefly derogatory a liveried manservant or footman.

■ a person who performs menial tasks.

– derivatives
flunkeyism noun.

– origin C18 (orig. Scots): perh. from flank in the sense ‘a person who stands at one's flank’.

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