flunky
noun
flunky is a derogatory noun meaning “A person who always agrees with their superior or employer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-N-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flunky is flunkies.
What does flunky mean?
noun
- 1
derogatoryslangA person who always agrees with their superior or employer.
- 2
One performing menial or miscellaneous duties.
- 3
Alternative form of flunkey.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flunky?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-flunky.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flunky
- flunkies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flunky?
Flunky appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).