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(a) a female servant who does all kinds of housework (now chiefly historical); (b) a person (esp. an official) or a thing (esp. a machine) that…
colloquial. A general servant, a maid-of-all-work. Cf. cook-general n. at cook, n.1 compounds 1d. Now historical.