| 单词 | odd-job man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasodd-job man General attributive, esp. in odd-job man (also odd-jobs man). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman factotum1562 Magister factotum1573 Johannes factotum1592 Jack of all trades1618 Tom of all trades1631 John-of-all-trades1639 handyman1742 odd man1743 gimcrack1766 Jack of all work1773 orraman1802 bottle washer1835 Jack1836 odd-jobs man1859 roustabout1862 hob-jobber1873 rouster1882 odd-jobber1886 knockabout1889 orra-loon1895 rouser1896 trouncer1896 leatherneck1898 loppy1898 rouseabout1901 bluetongue2002 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant who lives out > servant doing odd jobs odd man1743 chore-girl18.. chore-boy1848 odd-job man1859 odd-jobber1886 toti1886 wood-and-water joey1887 useful1891 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 34 Outside Tellson's..was an odd-job-man. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 357 He had an odd-job-man's handiness with tools. 1910 Moving Picture World 7 May 749/2 Rastus in Zululand.—Rastus is an odd-jobs man, that is he does odd jobs when he has to. 1933–4 L. Wittgenstein Blue & Brown Bks. (1958) 44 We are tempted to describe the use of important ‘odd-job’ words as though they were words with regular functions. 1942 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 63 Grasshoppers... that's what the army calls its new odd-job planes. 1973 Newsweek 12 Mar. 96 The rumdum lives he weaves together—dime-store and dinner women, odd-job truckers and coal-mine cripples. 1989 A. Beattie Picturing Will i. i. 5 He rewired lamps for a living and worked as the odd-jobs man on the property. 2001 I. Losada Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment 60 Maybe I could think about the fact I am a woman instead of a kind of conglomerate: disciplinarian, breadwinner, cook,..odd job man [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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