Definitions for flunkey

flunkey flun·key

Spelling: [fluhng-kee]
IPA: /ˈflʌŋ ki/

Flunkey is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in flunkey (efklnuy).

Definitions for flunkey

noun

  1. flunky.
  2. a male servant in livery.
  3. an assistant who does menial work.
  4. a toady; yes-man.

Origin of flunkey

First recorded in 1775-85; perhaps alteration of flanker

Examples for flunkey

Your dream and rest is over; for are you not the general's flunkey?

The ancient wig of the judge is often indistinguishable from the old wig of the flunkey.

Ted had taken a flunkey's job at Crestwood two days after he graduated.

"The lumberjacks want no flunkey, but the real thing," as one expressed it.

The flunkey in the hall was evidently expecting his arrival.

At the same moment a flunkey in chocolate and cream approached him.

And of course he could not exist, unless he had flunkey customers by the dozen.

I was just entering Rasputin's room at the palace when a flunkey told me the news.

Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.

The flunkey referred her to Count Rechberg, the aide-de-camp on duty.

Word Value for flunkey
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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