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dogsbody
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n. a domestic servant [syn: menial ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A dogsbody , or less commonly dog robber in the Royal Navy , is a junior officer , or more generally someone who does drudge work. A rough American equivalent would be a " gofer ," "grunt" or "lackey".
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.