flunkeydom
nounEtymology From flunkey + -dom.
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The state of a being a flunkey
- The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them--they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound--were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.1906, George Sidney Paternoster, The Motor Pirate:
- So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence;--and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et em, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.1902, Henry Harland, The Lady Paramount:
1 more example
- His Worship had indeed usurped all the modern appliances of flunkeydom.1856, Timothy Templeton, The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth: