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dogsbody::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | prole, proletarian, worker |
Examples of dogsbody
dogsbody
Disloyal backbenchers have a lot more fun than dogsbody junior ministers.
From the economist.com
Who's the leader, who's the funny guy, who's the dogsbody.
From the guardian.co.uk
Sometimes that also means being the dogsbody.
From the independent.co.uk
Dogsbody, would you head the NY Slapping Militia?
From the guardian.co.uk
It remains unclear how a relative dogsbody would have come to know as much about the secret services as Mr Boukhari says he does.
From the economist.com
I was general dogsbody and tea boy.
From the guardian.co.uk
In the early 1980s, as a dogsbody in a paper mill, she noted that the waste paper her superiors so casually discarded was actually worth something.
From the economist.com
Tens of thousands of dollars'worth of tuition, multiple internships, and a bunch of dogsbody jobs does often lead, finally, to a halfway decent position.
From the forbes.com
Smith is very amusing when he is being a naive, gauche dogsbody, but he is totally unbelievable in his abrupt transformation into torturer and murderer.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
- A worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do
- A dogsbody, or less commonly dog robber in the Royal Navy, is a junior officer, or more generally someone who does drudge work. A rough American equivalent would be a "gofer", "scutpuppy", or "grunt".
- Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
- A person who does menial work, a servant
- One whose work is routine and boring: drudge
- Naval Common slang name for someone of very little importance.
- Any menial worker, derived from sailor's term for soaked sea biscuits or pease pudding; as a functionary, ORDERLY, factotum, AIDE, assistant, comprador, MAN FRIDAY, horse-holder, shield-bearer, spear-carrier, water-hauler, stamp-licker, DUMMY, jack-of-all-trades, drudge, foil, pawn, surrogate, ...
- A role mothers objected to.
