dogsbody
To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work.
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Born ~1818 · 1 year of recorded useDefinitions
To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work.
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 rea…
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(British, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant.
'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!
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