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单词 flunkey
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flun·key

noun
/ˈflʌŋki/
/ˈflʌŋki/
(also flunky)
(plural flunkeys, flunkies)
  1. (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,周围都是一向唯唯诺诺的奴仆。
  2. (old-fashioned) a servant in uniform(穿制服的)男仆
    • a team of hired flunkeys一群受雇的走狗
  3. Word Originmid 18th cent. (originally Scots): perhaps from flank in the sense ‘a person who stands at one's flank’.
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