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词汇 flunky
释义 flunky
noun[ C ]
 old-fashioneduk /ˈflʌŋ.ki/ us /ˈflʌŋ.ki/(alsoflunkey)
USinformal
the person who does the boring physical work in a company: (公司里)专门干无聊体力活的人
office flunkyFreddy is considered the office flunkey.弗雷迪被认为是办公室里专干无聊体力活的人。
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UK
a male servant wearing a uniform(穿制服的)男仆
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flunky | American Dictionary


flunky
noun[ C ]
us/ˈflʌŋ·ki/
a person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer:
He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

Examples of flunky


flunky
Is the program a creative artist, or is a mere flunky, mechanically doing exactly what it is told to do?
The hotel flunkies jumped to help him with his bags.
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The flunky is given orders by various members of the family which he must carry out.
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Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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