Flunkey

//ˈflʌŋki//

Synonyms for "flunkey" (39 found)

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Translations

27 translations across 12 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • лакей noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • ласкател noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)
  • подлизурко noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 男僕 /男仆 noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • 馬屁精 /马屁精 noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Finnish

4 entries
  • käskyläinen noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • kätyri noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • lakeija noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • mielistelijä noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

German

2 entries
  • Lakai noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)
  • Speichellecker noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • lakáj noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • talpnyaló noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Irish

1 entries
  • Seoinín noun (liveried servant or a footman)

Māori

2 entries
  • tonotono noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • tonotono noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Schekjbenjel noun (liveried servant or a footman)

Polish

1 entries
  • sługus noun (liveried servant or a footman)

Russian

4 entries
  • лаке́й noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • лаке́й noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)
  • лизоблюд noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)
  • подли́за noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • lakej noun (liveried servant or a footman)
  • poniznica noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)
  • poniznik noun (one who is obsequious or cringing)

Spanish

1 entries
  • lacayo noun (liveried servant or a footman)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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If you behave like a flunkey, you're treated like a flunkey.

Source: tatoeba (940486)

On getting to the grand house and telling the flunkey he had come to see his master, the flunkey regarded him with disdain, and replied his lordship was engaged and would not see him.

Source: tatoeba (11932603)

“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

Source: wiktionary

For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.

Source: wiktionary

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