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Pup vs Dogsbody - What's the difference?

pup | dogsbody |

As nouns the difference between pup and dogsbody

is that pup is hump, hunch 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:.

pup

English

(wikipedia pup)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, shark and some other animals.
  • The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup .
  • A young, inexperienced person.
  • The new teacher is a mere pup .
  • Any cute dog, regardless of age.
  • My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
  • A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To give birth to pups.
  • See also

    * puppy * pup tent English palindromes ----

    dogsbody

    English

    Noun

    (dogsbodies)
  • (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:
  • 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 job

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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.
  • 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