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Wiktionary英語版での「flun・key」の英訳 |
flunkey
別の表記
- flunkie, flunky
語源
(This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the 語源 scriptorium.)
名詞
flunkey (複数形 flunkeys または flunkies)
- (derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
- 1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:
- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
- 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 304:
- Dignified flunkies in the circular reception hall of the Ritz took my bag and briefcase and I came through the revolving door looking for Renata.
- An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.
- (US, finance, slang, obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
派生語
- flunkeydom
- flunkeyish
- flunkeyism
参考
- flunker (possibly false cognate)
- lackey
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flunkey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
参照
- flunkey at OneLook Dictionary Search
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