[f. FLUNKEY sb.1 + -DOM.]
1. The domain of flunkeys; flunkeys collectively.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. July, 14/1. The finest ‘marine parade,’ as flunkeydom terms it, in all England.
1884. Punch, LXXXVI. 29 March, 154/2. If it does, the whole of Flunkeydom will at once withdraw their support from Mr. Gladstone’s Administration.
2. The spirit or behavior of a flunkey.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xxv. Mackaye too, who, however he hated flunkeydom, never overlooked an act of discourtesy.
1879. Henry J. Miller, Lazarus Appeals to Dives, in Contemporary Review, XXXVI. Oct., 291. Flunkeydom is much more insufferable and incomprehensible to the general run of us than swelldom itself.
