单词 | odd-jobber |
释义 | odd-jobbern. A person who does odd jobs for a living. 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 1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 99 All that the odd-jobber did was to stack the soil. 1915 R. Brooke Let. 20 Apr. (1968) 681 Ian Hamilton..asked me if I'd like to be attached to his staff as a sort of ‘galloper’ and odd-jobber—‘A.D.C.’. 1938 D. Smith Dear Octopus i. 22 Just a sort of receptionist and general odd-jobber. 1977 Private Eye 4 Mar. 20/2 (advt.) Carpentry, cleaning, electrics, decorating, gardening, handy persons, odd jobbers. 1997 Neon Sept. 94/4 The six-strong strippendales—including an old soulboy, over-endowed odd-jobber and ballroom-dancing foreman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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