What's the difference between flunkey and flunky?

Flunkey


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Flunky


Definition:

  • (n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
  • (n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
  • (n.) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brett's up by 3.30am and in the office within an hour, from where he bombards flunkies with apparently "motivational emails".
  • (2) Because he sent one of his flunkys into Quique's post-match press conference to announce that the board was discussing his future, with the coach still sitting there.
  • (3) Donald Trump has responded on Twitter to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, calling her an “overrated actress” and a “Hillary flunky”.
  • (4) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.
  • (5) ''Sparkling, to match my teeth,'' he grins when a PR flunky asks if he'd like some water, before laughing off his seven-year-old son Callum's hopes of following in his footsteps.
  • (6) He does not ruffle and he will not be pushed, which is as much down to his own personality as the two mute flunkies who listen in on the interviews.
  • (7) He repeatedly condemns “state bureaucrats” for coming between you and healthcare, holding up market alternatives in a fantasia where there are no insurance flunkies who do the same.
  • (8) People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter’s disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing.” The fightback against Trump starts with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech | Suzanne Moore Read more Early on Monday morning, the president-elect tweeted that Streep was “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and a “Hillary flunky who lost big”.
  • (9) She is a..... January 9, 2017 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Hillary flunky who lost big.
  • (10) Yet she told friends: “I’m not Xiaobo’s flunky.” He exulted in her talents, boasting to friends about her poetry and artwork.
  • (11) Vader leaves logistics to his flunkies; Trump leaves them to the imagination, and says someone else – Mexico, China, why not Alderaan?

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