odd jobn.

Brit.

/ˌɒdˈdʒɒb/, U.S.

/ˈɑdˈdʒɑb/

Forms: see odd adj., n.¹, and adv. and job n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: odd adj., job n.²

Etymology: < odd adj. + job n.²

A casual or isolated piece of work, esp. one of a domestic or manual nature.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > piece of work or task > casual

odd job1704

1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 She..owes her Joyner above a hundred Pounds for odd-Jobs.

c1770 in L. de Vries & P. Fryer Venus Unmasked (1967) 33 Miss E. P—— R— has not received her stated allowance; is therefore obliged, in order to keep up appearances, to do odd jobs.

1798 J. Woodforde Diary 24 Nov. (1931) V. 148 Paid John Buck, Blacksmith, for divers odd Jobbs for the Year 1798 the Sum of 2.14.10.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 218 I am the upper boots;..the other man's my man, as..does odd jobs.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. iii. 64 Just try for a day to think of all the odd jobs as to be done well.

1877 H. E. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Nov. 861/1 Pottering..about the house, and finding little odd jobs to attend to.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxiv. 329 I shall take odd jobs. Something always comes along, cholera duty in India and things like that.

1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 25 He was not able to read or write, He did odd jobs on gentlemen's places, Cutting the hedge or hoeing the drive.

1986 P. D. James Taste for Death II. v. 136 He had gone over to the house to see if there were any odd jobs which Miss Matlock had needed doing.

2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June c1/4 Skipping college after graduating high school, he spent three years doing odd jobs around the country.

Compounds

General attributive, esp. in odd-job man (also odd-jobs man).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman

factotum1562

Magister factotum1573

Johannes factotum1592

Jack of all trades1618

Tom of all trades1631

John-of-all-trades1639

handyman1742

odd man1743

gimcrack1766

Jack of all work1773

orraman1802

bottle washer1835

Jack1836

odd-jobs man1859

roustabout1862

hob-jobber1873

rouster1882

odd-jobber1886

knockabout1889

orra-loon1895

rouser1896

trouncer1896

leatherneck1898

loppy1898

rouseabout1901

bluetongue2002

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant who lives out > servant doing odd jobs

odd man1743

chore-girl18..

chore-boy1848

odd-job man1859

odd-jobber1886

toti1886

wood-and-water joey1887

useful1891

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 34 Outside Tellson's..was an odd-job-man.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 357 He had an odd-job-man's handiness with tools.

1910 Moving Picture World 7 May 749/2 Rastus in Zululand.—Rastus is an odd-jobs man, that is he does odd jobs when he has to.

1933–4 L. Wittgenstein Blue & Brown Bks. (1958) 44 We are tempted to describe the use of important ‘odd-job’ words as though they were words with regular functions.

1942 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 63 Grasshoppers... that's what the army calls its new odd-job planes.

1973 Newsweek 12 Mar. 96 The rumdum lives he weaves together—dime-store and dinner women, odd-job truckers and coal-mine cripples.

1989 A. Beattie Picturing Will i. i. 5 He rewired lamps for a living and worked as the odd-jobs man on the property.

2001 I. Losada Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment 60 Maybe I could think about the fact I am a woman instead of a kind of conglomerate: disciplinarian, breadwinner, cook,..odd job man [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	odd job
释义	odd jobn. Brit. /ˌɒdˈdʒɒb/, U.S. /ˈɑdˈdʒɑb/ Forms: see odd adj., n.¹, and adv. and job n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: odd adj., job n.² Etymology: < odd adj. + job n.² A casual or isolated piece of work, esp. one of a domestic or manual nature. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > piece of work or task > casual odd job1704 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 She..owes her Joyner above a hundred Pounds for odd-Jobs. c1770 in L. de Vries & P. Fryer Venus Unmasked (1967) 33 Miss E. P—— R— has not received her stated allowance; is therefore obliged, in order to keep up appearances, to do odd jobs. 1798 J. Woodforde Diary 24 Nov. (1931) V. 148 Paid John Buck, Blacksmith, for divers odd Jobbs for the Year 1798 the Sum of 2.14.10. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 218 I am the upper boots;..the other man's my man, as..does odd jobs. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. iii. 64 Just try for a day to think of all the odd jobs as to be done well. 1877 H. E. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Nov. 861/1 Pottering..about the house, and finding little odd jobs to attend to. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxiv. 329 I shall take odd jobs. Something always comes along, cholera duty in India and things like that. 1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 25 He was not able to read or write, He did odd jobs on gentlemen's places, Cutting the hedge or hoeing the drive. 1986 P. D. James Taste for Death II. v. 136 He had gone over to the house to see if there were any odd jobs which Miss Matlock had needed doing. 2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June c1/4 Skipping college after graduating high school, he spent three years doing odd jobs around the country. Compounds General attributive, esp. in odd-job man (also odd-jobs man). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman factotum1562 Magister factotum1573 Johannes factotum1592 Jack of all trades1618 Tom of all trades1631 John-of-all-trades1639 handyman1742 odd man1743 gimcrack1766 Jack of all work1773 orraman1802 bottle washer1835 Jack1836 odd-jobs man1859 roustabout1862 hob-jobber1873 rouster1882 odd-jobber1886 knockabout1889 orra-loon1895 rouser1896 trouncer1896 leatherneck1898 loppy1898 rouseabout1901 bluetongue2002 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant who lives out > servant doing odd jobs odd man1743 chore-girl18.. chore-boy1848 odd-job man1859 odd-jobber1886 toti1886 wood-and-water joey1887 useful1891 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 34 Outside Tellson's..was an odd-job-man. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 357 He had an odd-job-man's handiness with tools. 1910 Moving Picture World 7 May 749/2 Rastus in Zululand.—Rastus is an odd-jobs man, that is he does odd jobs when he has to. 1933–4 L. Wittgenstein Blue & Brown Bks. (1958) 44 We are tempted to describe the use of important ‘odd-job’ words as though they were words with regular functions. 1942 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 63 Grasshoppers... that's what the army calls its new odd-job planes. 1973 Newsweek 12 Mar. 96 The rumdum lives he weaves together—dime-store and dinner women, odd-job truckers and coal-mine cripples. 1989 A. Beattie Picturing Will i. i. 5 He rewired lamps for a living and worked as the odd-jobs man on the property. 2001 I. Losada Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment 60 Maybe I could think about the fact I am a woman instead of a kind of conglomerate: disciplinarian, breadwinner, cook,..odd job man [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704
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