minionmin‧ion /ˈmɪnjən/ noun [countable usually plural]Word Origin
WORD ORIGINminion
Origin:
1500-1600Frenchmignon word for a much-loved person
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
All the minions in the outer office take their eyes off their VDUs, and follow my limping progress up the room.
Alongside them rode Carey, Agrippa and Catesby, then us followed by the creaking carts and household minions.
But he has written a steamy thriller, much to the surprise of his conservative minions.
His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
Of course, Satan and his minions are still all around us, full of fight.
The minions of the four Great Powers ride forth, clad in black and bronze.
Until then only minions had been arrested, but now they turned their attention to the big fish.
someone’s minions are the people who just obey their orders and do unskilled work – used humorously: I was shown into the office by one of her minions.