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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dogsbody
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 FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I got myself a job as a typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I act as general dogsbody, carry books, go fetch, good boy, that kind of thing.
▪ I've got a crummy ordinary dogsbody job.
▪ I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow.
▪ She was evidently their dogsbody, used for tasks which no one else was prepared to take on.
Wiktionary
dogsbody

n. (context British English) A person who does menial work, a servant. vb. To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work:

WordNet
dogsbody

n. a domestic servant [syn: menial]

Wikipedia
Dogsbody

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".

Dogsbody (novel)

Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones.

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.