Resembling, characteristic of, or behaving like a flunkey; overly obedient or servile.
Combines 'flunkey' with the -ish suffix (from Old English, meaning having qualities of or resembling), which turns nouns into adjectives describing similarity or quality.
The -ish suffix is incredibly productive in English—we can add it to nearly any word to mean 'somewhat like' or 'resembling,' which is why you can create words like 'flunkeyish' even if they're rarely used.
This adjectival form of 'flunkey' carries forward the masculine gendering of servile behavior established in servant hierarchies.
Use 'servile,' 'obsequious,' 'sycophantic,' or 'subordinate' to describe the behavior without gendered overtones.
["servile","obsequious","sycophantic","subordinate","deferential"]
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