Crossword clues for factotum
factotum
- Employee doing all kinds of work
- Specific books let me think I'm a handyman
- Someone employed for a variety of jobs
- Servant about to break large old pot
- Non-fiction books let me think he's useful in many ways
- Front shaved as far as stomach? One meant to get everything done
- Busy employee reduced information given to corporation
- Right hand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
factotum \fac*to"tum\ (f[a^]k*t[=o]"t[u^]m), n.; pl. factotums
(-t[u^]mz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all :
cf. F. factotum. See Fact, and Total.]
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a
person with many different responsibilities.
--B. Jonson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who does all kinds of work for another," 1560s, from Medieval Latin factotum "do everything," from fac, imperative of facere "do" (see factitious) + totum "all" (see total (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A person having many diverse activity or responsibility. 2 (context dated English) A general servant. 3 A jack of all trades. 4 An individual employed to do all sorts of duties.
WordNet
n. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
Wikipedia
Factotum is a 2005 film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. It stars Matt Dillon as Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski.
Factotum (1975) is the second novel by American author Charles Bukowski.
Factotum may refer to:
- Servant
- Body man
- Factotum (novel), a 1975 novel by Charles Bukowski
- Factotum (film), a 2005 film adaptation of the novel
- Factotum (arts organisation), an arts organisation based in Belfast
- factotum (software), an authentication system of Plan 9
- Largo al factotum, an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
factotum is a password management and authentication protocol negotiation virtual file system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. When a program wants to authenticate to a service, it requests a key from factotum. If factotum does not have the key, it requests it from the users either via the terminal window or auth/fgui which is then stored in volatile memory. factotum then authenticates to the service on behalf of the program. For long term storage, keys are usually stored in secstore or in an encrypted file.
Factotum is both an arts organisation and artists' project that was formed in 2001 by Stephen Hackett and Richard West. They publish The Vacuum newspaper, put on exhibitions, publish books and make films. In the past they have also run a choir, staged contemporary dance events and organised talks. In 2005 Factotum won a Paul Hamlyn Award for the Visual Arts and participated in Northern Ireland's first showing in the Venice Biennale. In 2007 they were selected for the Irish Curated Visual Arts Award by the artist Mike Nelson. Factotum's work often involves collaborating with a wide range of other arts organisations, artists and writers.
Usage examples of "factotum".
Crevecoeur and his mistress had departed, carrying some money with them, and a Florentine adventurer named Billotti had fled with eighteen thousand roubles belonging to Papanelopulo, but a certain Bori, the worthy Greek's factotum, had caught him at Mitau and brought him back to St.
Soon, how, none can say, the Axmen have assign'd to Nathanael a Character, closer to Macheath than to the diligent Factotum he knows himself to be, tho' he's tried to explain what in this Party he is and isn't, yet do they expect him to take Bribes, to wink at Gambling, to keep local Justices of the Peace and Sheriffs satisfied, above all, they continue to regard him as the Bully who protects Mrs.
Back in the bright daylight, Shef could see that bin-Firnas was flanked by aides and servants, among them the young man Mu'atiyah who had come on the embassy to the North and the ever-present factotum Suleiman.
Felipe worked by day in a brokerage house in Wall Street and by night functioned as a sort of general factotum, taking hats and coats, ferrying girls to and from dates, and arranging payoffs.
The suite he shared with Austin, and one of the family factotums burdened with reports, was one of the largest on the transport.
When they entered into the service of the Shadow King, they were trained for their new role in the society of the city named after its king, rigorously prepared to assume their official duties as Nibenay's factotums and the bearers of his power.
He had fair, sleeked-back hair, a thin line of a mustache, and that cold-eyed, dispassionate look that seemed to go with factotums of enforcement bureaucracies everywhere.
Ling was the Electors business managerthe factotum who took care of her employers practical affairs, while the Elector concentrated on the creative efforts she considered the primary purpose of her life.