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flunky

noun

variants: also flunkey or flunkie

Synonyms and Antonyms of flunky

1 a person hired to perform household or personal services

since I'm just the flunky who files his papers, I've no idea where he is

Synonyms of flunky

daily [British], domestic, lackey, menial, retainer, servant, slavey, steward

Words Related to flunky

butler, footman, groom, houseboy, houseman, majordomo, man, manservant, servitor, valet

handmaiden (also handmaid), housekeeper, housemaid, lady-in-waiting, maid, maidservant, wench, woman

assistant, attendant, companion, factotum, follower

dogsbody [chiefly British], drudge, gofer (or gopher)

Near Antonyms of flunky

boss, captain, chief, foreman, head, headman, helmsman, kingpin, leader, taskmaster

Antonyms of flunky

master, mistress

2 a person who flatters another in order to get ahead

a rock star who saw through the phonies and the flunkies

Synonyms of flunky

apple-polisher, bootlicker, brownnoser, fawner, lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant, toady

Words Related to flunky

apparatchik, company man

hanger-on, leech, parasite, sponge, sponger

henchman, lackey, lapdog, minion, running dog, satellite, slave, stooge

admirer, cultist, devotee, enthusiast, fan, groveler, idolater (or idolator), worshipper (or worshiper), zealot

adherent, camp follower, convert, disciple, follower, me-tooer, partisan (also partizan), pupil, votary

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