flunkeys

English "flunkeys" hate American "flunkeyism," with its laced coachmen, etc., is because mere money, by aping the insignia of rank, its gewgaws and trumpery, shows too plainly how much of the rank itself depends upon the fabrics and demonstrations through which it sets itself forth.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

a compatriot who had recently dined at the Mansion House, and who had described "flunkeys" in hair-powder and cloth of gold -- like Thackeray's

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

"flunkeys," taken the day before from some office, insolent fellows, with the heads of dentists or bath-attendants, bustled about among the motionless Ethiopians, who shone like black marble torch-holders, -- it was impossible to say exactly where you were; at all events, you would never have believed that you were on Place Vendôme, at the very heart and centre of the life of our modern Paris.

The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

Oh, and Giscard is worried about where the President will live, how much moolah he will have at his disposal and how many flunkeys he will have to do his bidding.

Archive 2008-02-10 2008

Oh, and Giscard is worried about where the President will live, how much moolah he will have at his disposal and how many flunkeys he will have to do his bidding.

The Oracle Speaks 2008

All this before she has even bought an airline ticket for herself and her attendant flunkeys.

Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age 2010

All this before she has even bought an airline ticket for herself and her attendant flunkeys.

Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age 2010

This is a good start, and already we are seeing the Republican Party split at the seams between serious deficit hawks and flunkeys for the military-industrial complex.

Meredith Bagby: What's So Wrong With Simpson-Bowles? Meredith Bagby 2010

We have the perfect example: the Warsaw Pact, and its assorted flunkeys in Africa and Asia.

April « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

We have the perfect example: the Warsaw Pact, and its assorted flunkeys in Africa and Asia.

The International Community is not a fundamentally predatory force « Isegoria 2008