- (disapproving)
a person who tries to please somebody who is important and powerful by doing small jobs for them 阿谀奉承者；势利小人；马屁精 The minister arrived, surrounded by the usual subservient flunkeys. 部长到了，周围都是通常唯唯诺诺的奴才。
- (old-fashioned)
a servant in uniform （穿制服的）男仆 a team of hired flunkeys 一队受雇的走狗
Word Originmid 18th cent. (originally Scots): perhaps from flank in the sense ‘a person who stands at one's flank’.