Flunky
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mid 18th century (originally Scots): perhaps from flank in the sense ‘a person who stands at one's flank’.
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flunky (n.)
also flunkey, 1782, Scottish dialect, "footman, liveried servant," of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive variant of flanker (in reference to servants running alongside coaches; compare footman). Sense of "flatterer, toady" first recorded 1855. "Recent in literature, but prob. much older in colloquial speech" [Century Dictionary].
