Dogsbodies - English meaning

noun

A person made to do hard menial or dull work.

Usage examples:

I felt like a household drudge

verb

Do hard menial work.

Usage examples:

Her husband was drudging in the smoke of london

noun

A person who has to work hard at boring and unpleasant tasks and who is not respected by other people

Usage examples:

I feel like a real drudge - i've done nothing but clean all day!

noun

An employee who does all kinds of work.

Usage examples:

He was employed as the general factotum

noun

A person employed to do all types of jobs for someone

Usage examples:

He became a sort of general factotum for the band.

noun

A person who runs errands, especially on a film set or in an office; a dogsbody.

Usage examples:

He had worked his way from a gofer in the front office to general manager

noun

A person whose job is to take messages or to collect and deliver things for other people

noun

Someone who does boring jobs for other employees, for example carrying messages or making drinks

Usage examples:

David works as a gofer at an independent television production company.

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

adjective

(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.

Usage examples:

Menial factory jobs

noun

A person with a menial job.

Usage examples:

Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundred…

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A spanish american day labourer or unskilled farm worker.

Usage examples:

After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and…

noun

A farm worker in south america who does jobs that do not need any particular skill

Usage examples:

The boss just never talked to peons like us. it was beneath her.

noun

A person that runs, especially in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Mary was a fast runner

noun

A long, narrow blade designed to slide over ice easily, fixed to the bottom of skates (= a type of boot) or snow vehicles

noun

A servant assigned the most menial kitchen tasks.

Usage examples:

Simnel, a mere pawn, was pardoned and set to work as a scullion in the royal kitchens, living out t…

noun

Someone employed to do unskilled jobs in a kitchen in the past

noun

A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

Usage examples:

Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

noun

A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

Usage examples:

A civil/public servant

noun

A person who serves or attends on a social superior.

Usage examples:

He has no illusions about the atmosphere of terror and suspicion that pervaded even the elite and r…

noun

A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks.

Usage examples:

I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy

verb

Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.

Usage examples:

I was skivvying for that brixton family

noun

A person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning

Usage examples:

He treats me like a skivvy., i wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money., skivvy …

noun

A person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person.

Usage examples:

They kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves

verb

(especially in the past) a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.

Usage examples:

They kidnapped entire towns and turned them into slaves

noun

A person lower in status or rank.

Usage examples:

She was shouting orders at underlings between gulps of coffee

noun

A person of low rank and little authority who works for someone more important

Usage examples:

She surrounded herself with underlings who were too afraid of her to answer back.