Definition of "flunkeys" [flunkeys]

• Plural form of flunkey (alternative spelling of flunkies). (noun)

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• "English "flunkeys" hate American "flunkeyism," with its laced coachmen, etc., is because mere money, by aping the insignia of rank, its gewgaws and trumpery, shows too plainly how much of the rank itself depends upon the fabrics and demonstrations through which it sets itself forth."
• "a compatriot who had recently dined at the Mansion House, and who had described "flunkeys" in hair-powder and cloth of gold -- like Thackeray's"
• ""flunkeys," taken the day before from some office, insolent fellows, with the heads of dentists or bath-attendants, bustled about among the motionless Ethiopians, who shone like black marble torch-holders, -- it was impossible to say exactly where you were; at all events, you would never have believed that you were on Place Vendôme, at the very heart and centre of the life of our modern Paris."