| 单词 | general dogsbody |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeneral dogsbody b. colloquial. A person who is given menial tasks, esp. a junior person in an office. Frequently in general dogsbody. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge drivelc1225 meniala1387 druggarc1500 drudgea1513 kitchen wencha1556 coal carrier1567 droy1570 packhorse?1577 droil1579 blue coat1583 sumpter1587 mill-horse1602 subsizar1602 jackal1649 mediastine1658 slut1664 hack1699 scrub1709 Gibeonite1798 the lion's provider1808 slush1825 Slave of the Lampc1840 runabout1893 lobby-gow1906 squidge1907 dogsbody1922 legman1939 shit-kicker1950 1922 T. E. Lawrence Let. 1 Sept. (1938) iv. 365 I'll have got used to being a dog's body. 1934 M. Hodge Wind & Rain ii. i. 57 Oh, no. I don't understand anything! I'm just ‘a dog's body’. 1955 H. Spring These Lovers fled Away xvii. 481 Introduced to a secretary whose dog's-body she was to be. 1967 Listener 14 Sept. 332/3 I was a sort of general dogsbody to begin with—assistant stage-manager, and what have you. 1971 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 31 Jan. 16/5 The country will still need hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers, dogsbodies and bottle-washers. 1980 B. Pym Few Green Leaves (1981) iii. 21 I had a little sort of job, nothing much, a sort of dogsbody in a travel agency. 2007 R. Pilcher Starburst 71 I'd left school at the age of sixteen with no qualifications and went straight to work at Ealing Studios as a general dogsbody. < as lemmas |
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