Monday, June 15, 2009

Flunkies

A servant, menial, or underling. Low man on the totem pole.

“At the Gatewood residence I found butlers, second men, chauffeurs, cooks, maids, upstairs girls, downstairs girls, and a raft of miscellaneous flunkies—he had enough servants to run a hotel.”

Dashiell Hammett, The Gatewood Caper (1924).

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