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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.
  2. n. One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.
  3. n. A liveried manservant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A male servant in livery: used in contempt.
  2. n. Hence One who is mean and base-spirited; a cringing flatterer and servile imitator of those above him in rank or position; a toady; a snob.
  3. n. In the United States, among stock-brokers, a person who, from inexperience, makes bad investments or loses his money.
  4. n. A cabin waiter on a passenger-vessel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sycophant; a servant or hanger-on who is kept for their loyalty or muscle rather than their intellect.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a male servant (especially a footman)
  2. n. a person of unquestioning obedience

Etymologies

  1. Scots, perhaps from flanker, an attendant at one's flank.

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