Definition of "flunkeydom"

The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them--they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound--were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.

1906, George Sidney Paternoster, The Motor Pirate‎

So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence;--and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et em, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.

1902, Henry Harland, The Lady Paramount‎

His Worship had indeed usurped all the modern appliances of flunkeydom.

1856, Timothy Templeton, The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth‎