单词 | dogsbodying |
释义 | dogsbodyingn. British colloquial. The work of a dogsbody; the carrying out of menial tasks. ΚΠ 1956 Jrnl. Eccl. Hist. 7 46 Lee..was at this time royal chaplain and a master in chancery, offices which commonly involved a general dogsbodying in matters ecclesiastical on behalf of the government. 1989 D. Merwin in A. Stevenson Bitter Fame 346 My own semi-tongue-in-cheek dogsbodying..had started off on a basis of free-range good intentions and deteriorated into a pretty joyless arrangement. 2003 P. Oppenheim Maggie to Margaritas xxxvi. 271 At the very bottom, lumpy, hard-bitten kitchen porters or KPs do the dogsbodying like scraping dishes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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