flun.ky 也作 flun.key
flunky的音标和读音:
DJ音标发音: [ˈflʌŋki:]
KK音标发音: [ˈflʌŋki]
flunky的词性:
n.(名词)
1. A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey.
象奴隶般的人:一个象奴隶一般顺从或无条件服从的人;卑躬屈膝者
2. One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge.
作粗重工作的人:一个做体力劳动或不重要工作的人;干重活的人
3. A liveried manservant.
穿制服的男仆
flunky的词源:
4. Scots
苏格兰语
5. perhaps from flanker [an attendant at one's flank]
可能源自 flanker[某人身边的侍从]
flunky的词性:
n.(名词)
flunky的注释:
6. The word flunky has come into Standard English from Scots, in which the word meant “liveried manservant, footman,” coming at least by the 19th century to be a term of contempt. The word is first recorded and defined in a work about Scots published in 1782. The definition states that a flunky is “literally a sidesman or attendant at your flank,” which gives support to the suggestion that flunky is a derivative and alteration of flanker, “one who stands at a person's flank.”
flunky 一词从苏格兰演变为标准英语。 苏格兰语中,该词意思为“穿制服的男仆,脚夫,”至少在19世纪时变为表示蔑视的词语。该词首先于1782年的一本有关苏格兰的书中得到记载和定义。定义中说flunky 在“字面意思是身边的人或身旁的随从”, 该定义支持了有关flunky 是由 flanker 派生和演变而来的说法, 意思是“一个站在别人身边的人”