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Dogsbody
Dogsbody meaning
A person who does menial work, a servant. | Alternative form of dog's body (“pease pudding”)
Example sentences (5)
Loopholes allow unscrupulous employers to hire them for dogsbody jobs, such as making tea, or go months without training them.
She’s a working woman, but it’s a job rather than a career, and she’s a bit of a dogsbody”.
Davis adored Rutherford, with one friend noting: "For him she was not only a great talent but, above all, a beauty." citation The ex-serviceman and actor rarely left his wife's side, serving Rutherford as private secretary, gofer and general dogsbody.
Each generation acts as the dogsbody to his respective Blackadder.
The ULA chip, described by the ZX81 manual as the "dogsbody" of the system, has a number of key functions that competing computers shared between multiple chips and integrated circuits.