Meanings
- uncountableThe state of a being a flunkey
His Worship had indeed usurped all the modern appliances of flunkeydom.
1856, Timothy Templeton, The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth2 more examples
The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them--they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound--were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.
1906, George Sidney Paternoster, The Motor PirateSo, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence;--and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et em, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
1902, Henry Harland, The Lady Paramount
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