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A flunkey is someone who does small jobs for an important person, not because the work is proud, but because they want to please that person. We use it to show we do not respect them. In older stories it can be a servant in uniform who opens doors and carries coats. Now it is more often a who runs around after a boss and never says no. Informal and . Though actually, calling someone a flunkey is an attack on their pride, so do not use it of a or a colleague unless you mean to be rude. Also spelled flunky.
跟班、馬屁精（貶）
組成It does not split into pieces a student can see. It started as a word for a male servant in uniform, then stretched to this rude meaning.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
flunkeynoun/ˈflʌŋki/
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derogatoryAn underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
- For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.
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An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。