Handyman

Quick meaning: Handyman is a noun meaning (informal) A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.

Meaning

(informal) A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.

More Meanings

1. (informal, intransitive) To work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.

Example Sentences

I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.

They handymanned all week. And every night Grandad would come in with rosy cheeks and a huge appetite and compliment my mom on what a great cook she was.

Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.

My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.

Word Forms

• handymen
• handiman
• handymans
• handymanning
• handymanned

Related Words

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