The word "flunkey" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who is subservient or obsequious, especially someone employed as a personal servant or attendant. For example, "The Queen's flunkeys attended her every need."
Mr Gonzales's aide said the attorney-general had invested a lot of time in the issue perhaps "as much as five to ten minutes".Once a flunkey, always a flunkeyMr Gonzales is also much too close to Mr Bush to be able to do his job properly.
The registrar-general, a Mugabe flunkey, assented but delayed the reopening for half a day "to test the equipment".
Up in the VIP box, the president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, sitting oddly alone – his wife, who had been with him for the opening game, nowhere to be seen – allowed himself a gentle smile of celebration, while a black-suited flunkey alongside him danced an uncomfortable Arsène Wenger-style jig of delight.
Those cringe-making letters to ministers; those rambling lectures on the fate of the world; that flunkey squeezing his toothpaste on HRH's brush!
Patty will stop at nothing to get back what money she can for her clients: she'll lie, steal or have a flunkey chop a dog's head off.
Another flunkey poured the Sancerre, and cringed agreeably while he waited for one's verdict.
Agreeing to trying to work together again (in a court full of scheming flunkeys with high-sounding titles) is one thing.
Scorned by their peers as flunkeys, they felt constrained by their position from doing much more than sing rudely over the washing-up.
In March his flunkeys fractured the skull of the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, and murdered an opposition activist.
Which would leave him the option of spending it, if he cannot think of anything more useful, on the English National Opera, London's other great company, where at least the seats are cheaper, the atmosphere jollier, the operatic language English, but where English snobbery and uniformed flunkeys are mercifully absent.
(Fly Virgin Atlantic in its ironically titled Upper Class and you get a private car to take you to and from the airports, and flunkeys waiting in the lounge to polish your shoes and cut your hair).
