What does dogsbody mean?
Dogsbody means (British, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant..
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/ˈdɒɡz.bɒ.dɪ/ · noun
(British, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant..
Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.
'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!
That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody.
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.
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.
Use dogsbody when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dogsbody means (British, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant..
Common synonyms include batman, grunt, factotum, gofer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.
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