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flunkey 
1 n. Lumbering a cook's helper. Also spelled flunky.
See also: cookee
- 1908 ". . . I know the bosses say that it costs them more than five a week to feed a man, taking into account the wages of the cook and flunky . . . ."
- 1956 "You're a flunkey," he said. "Report to the cook."
- 1959 A flunky (a "stooge" or subservient person) was a sidesman in the days of liveried servants and the word still occasionally appears in occupational lists as equivalent to "cookee" or "choreboy."
2 n. Maritimes an apprentice fisherman assigned the menial tasks.
- 1923 (1929) He had learned the fisherman's strenuous trade, as "flunkey," "trouter," "header," and then . . . he was considered fit to take the bow oar of a dory.
3 n. West See quote.
- 1954 . . . the general farm worker is known as a hired man, a flunkey, a chore-boy, or just a labourer.
- 1908 ". . . I know the bosses say that it costs them more than five a week to feed a man, taking into account the wages of the cook and flunky . . . ."