Assistant vs Flunkey - What's the difference?
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Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
An underling; a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
* 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]
As nouns the difference between assistant and flunkey
is that assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness while flunkey is an underling; a contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household.As an adjective assistant
is having a subordinate or auxiliary position.assistant
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Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable.
Anagrams
* ----flunkey
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Alternative forms
* flunkee * flunkyNoun
(en-noun)- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one to one ' flunkey , gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"