Citations:flunkey

English citations of flunkey

Noun: "An incompetent novice investor"

• 1841, [Frederick Jackson], A Week in Wall Street, pages 90–1:

  “ […] But I’ve got time—I’ll turn the scale, I’ll help the bulls, operate for a rise, and draw in the flunkies.” ¶ These men, I should have said before, have no other rule of judgment for their operations than to follow in the wake of some great and successful speculator.

• 1857 November 9, The Cleveland Leader; republished as Virginia Massey, editor, Annals of Cleveland - 1818 - 1935: 1857, volume 40, part 1, a. 1937, page 7:

  The Massachusetts people endorsed their banks by an overwhelming vote and declared their confidence is unbounded. A few flunkies and rum-suckers were found trying to create a panic, but they are there as here to be numbered among the hypocrites and unbelievers.