Factotum
[fæk'təʊtəm] or [fæk'totəm]
Definition
(n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Edited by Dwight
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Doer of all work, jack-at-all-trades.
Editor: Rena
Definition
n. a person employed to do all kinds of work for another.
Typed by Billie
Examples
- The room was empty, the lad who acted as his factotum having gone to bed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But I have been talking to this young Ladislaw that Brooke is making a factotum of. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I also engraved several things on occasion; made the ink; I was warehouse-man, and, in short, quite a _factotum_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Edited by Eva