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Flunkey vs Flunked - What's the difference?

flunkey | flunked |

As a noun 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 a verb flunked is

(flunk).

flunkey

English

Alternative forms

* flunkee * flunky

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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 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. …"
  • One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
  • One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

    • Derived terms

    * flunkeydom * flunkeyish * flunkeyism

    See also

    * lackey (Webster 1913)

    flunked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flunk)

    • flunk

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US, ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
    • He flunked math, again.
  • (US) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
    • Unsatisfied with Fred's progress, the teacher flunked him.
  • (US, dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).
  • To back out through fear.

    • See also

    * flunk out English ergative verbs