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One who has to do all the boring jobs
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dogsbody
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Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE general ▪ But I act as general dogsbody , carry books, go fetch, good boy, that kind of thing. ▪ I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow. EXAMPLES ...
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n. a domestic servant [syn: menial ]
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n. (context British English) A person who does menial work, a servant. vb. To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work:
Usage examples of dogsbody.
We do the general dogsbodying for firms which are not big enough to support their own research group.
You are something of a bully so you are not easily cowed by the inferior dogsbodies of any pirate vessel.
There must, he thought, be thousands of these small attendants, waiters, scullions, masons, miners, mechanics and general helpers and dogsbodies in the place and around it.
Married to Louisa, daughter of Zonian roughneck and Bible-punching schoolteacher, who dogsbodies five days a week for the great and good Ernie Delgado over at the Panama Canal Commission.
The other floozies reminded Blondie that as the youngest he was still honorary dogsbody and sent him off to get food.