DCHP-3

flunkey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Lumbering

a cook's helper. Also spelled flunky.

See: cookee

Quotations

1908
". . . I know the bosses say that it costs them more than five a week to feed a man, taking into account the wages of the cook and flunky . . . ."
1956
"You're a flunkey," he said. "Report to the cook."
1959
A flunky (a "stooge" or subservient person) was a sidesman in the days of liveried servants and the word still occasionally appears in occupational lists as equivalent to "cookee" or "choreboy."
2n. — Maritimes

an apprentice fisherman assigned the menial tasks.

Quotations

1923
He had learned the fisherman's strenuous trade, as "flunkey," "trouter," "header," and then . . . he was considered fit to take the bow oar of a dory.
3n. — West

See quote.

Quotations

1954
. . . the general farm worker is known as a hired man, a flunkey, a chore-boy, or just a labourer.