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。 Types of employment admin administrative administrative assistant administratively at the coalfaceidiom job-sharing jobbing jobless joblessness jobseeker professionality qualified recertify redundancy redundant well qualified WFH white-collar who's whoidiom wilderness yearsidiom UK a male servant wearing a uniform(穿制服的)男仆 People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler dogsbody handmaiden housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid lapdog retainer serfdom servant skivvy slave slave trade slaver valet vassal flunky | American Dictionaryflunky 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 flunkyflunky 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The flunky is given orders by various members of the family which he must carry out. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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