Handyman vs Dogsbody - What's the difference?
handyman | dogsbody | Synonyms |
(British) A person who does menial work, a servant.
* That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody. — .
* 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 146:
To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work:
* 1989 , Tim Parks, Family Planning
*:Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.
Handyman is a synonym of dogsbody.
As nouns the difference between handyman and dogsbody
is that handyman is (informal) a man who does small tasks and odd jobs while dogsbody is (british) a person who does menial work, a servant.As a verb dogsbody is
to act as a dogsbody, to do menial work:.dogsbody
English
Noun
(dogsbodies)- Furthermore, there are still rather backward opinions in our society about the role of a translator. A translator is often regarded as a linguistic dogsbody .
Synonyms
* factotum * gofer * handyman * jack of all trades * odd jobVerb
(en-verb)References
* “dogsbody”, A.Word.A.Day, Anu Garg, Wordsmith.org * “
And, of course, the poloponies], [http://www.word-detective.com/index.html Word Detective, Evan Morris, 1997–07–01
