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flunkeyism|ˈflʌŋkiːɪz(ə)m| Also flunkism. [f. as prec. + -ism.] The quality characteristic of a flunkey; the manners, speech, etc. of a flunkey.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 312 A sinking journal, which its own inconsistencies and flunkism had irrevocably damned. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. vi. (1872) 30 We, for our share, will put away all Flunkeyism from us. 1886Law Times LXXX. 297/2 Flunkeyism and toadyism in legal proceedings have not been diminishing of late years. |