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plural dogsbodies
(Britain, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant. quotations examples
Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!
1976, “Anarchy in the U.K.”, performed by Sex Pistols
That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody.
1994, Blackadder (television production)
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.
1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 146
third-person singular simple present dogsbodies, present participle dogsbodying, simple past and past participle dogsbodied
To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work: quotations examples
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.
1989, Tim Parks, Family Planning