flunky

1) A servant in livery. A term now used contemptuously.-- Jamieson.

Our laird gets in his racked rents,

His coals, his kain, and a' his stents;

He rises when he likes himsel';

His flunkies answer at the bell.--Burns, iii. 3.

2) A class of people, who, unacquainted with the manner in which stocks are bought and sold, and deceived by appearances, come into Wall street without any knowledge of the market. The consequence is, they make bad investments, or lose their money. These the brokers call flunkies.--A Week in Wall Street, p. 81.

A broker who had met with heavy losses, exclaimed, "I'm in a bear-trap--this won't do. The dogs will come over me. I shall be mulct in a loss. But I've got time I'll turn the scale, I'll help the bulls operate for a rise and draw in the flunkies."--Ibid. p. 90.