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Definition of dogsbody in English: dogsbodynounPlural dogsbodies ˈdɒɡzbɒdiˈdɔɡzˌbɑdi British informal A person who is given menial tasks to do, especially a junior in an office. I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine Example sentencesExamples - There were eight divers on my boat, and three non-divers as dogsbodies.
- His only employment for the whole of his life was as a menial dogsbody in various Catholic Hospitals.
- Barry, are you the office dogsbody who ends up doing the rubbish jobs the other hacks can't be bothered with?
- When I was 18 I landed a job as an exhibitions dogsbody at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- He begins his story as the dogsbody of a big-time lawyer prosecuting a Roman senator for corruption.
- I became head of current affairs, BBC Television Northern Ireland, which sounds grand but I was basically a dogsbody.
- It's a funny old job - part teacher, part substitute mum or dad, part social worker and part dogsbody.
- Instead of having a position of any responsibility I was the bottom of the bottom, the general dogsbody.
- I worked for nothing, was the office dogsbody, but I learned a lot, explained Rory.
- The author has also previously worked as a chambermaid, a waitress and an office dogsbody in Friends of the Earth.
- He's a bit of a dogsbody really - Ray and Gene send him on all of the rubbish jobs.
- They soon moved in together, falling easily into stereotypical roles, he as the dominant decision-maker, she as general dogsbody.
- I reminded myself that I am professionally qualified and thus have more purpose than to act as personal assistant, clerk, typist and dogsbody to anybody.
- Pity the poor dogsbody whose job it is to deliver the trophy in time for a post-match presentation at either Ibrox or Rugby Park.
- ‘I decided to stay in the kitchen, rather than become a dogsbody in a hotel,’ said Kim.
- I started work as a dogsbody in a small City advertising agency at £13 pounds 10 shillings a week, and rented a room in Crouch End for £5 a week.
- In early 1997, I applied to sit an exam to become a copyboy, a now extinct species of dogsbodies who once did everything journos couldn't be bothered doing.
- As the general dogsbody for the radio station, I'd been sent out to drag the stars back to our mobile studio, where they would be interviewed on air.
- People seem to think we're here to drop everything when they need something, to take the blame for other people's bad behaviour and to generally take the role of dogsbody.
- We work with individual children, but we are treated as dogsbodies.
Synonyms drudge, menial, menial worker, factotum, man of all work, maid of all work, servant, slave, galley slave, lackey, underling, minion hewer of wood and drawer of water informal gofer, running dog, runner, man/girl Friday British informal skivvy North American informal peon archaic scullion, servitor
Derivatives noun British informal We have the most wonderful bunch of people who clean, who supervise in lunch hours, and who provide support with transport, and general dogsbodying. Example sentencesExamples - We're waiting to hear if the conference organizers are going to offer us free or reduced registration in exchange for dogsbodying.
- It is definitely not general dogsbodying.
Definition of dogsbody in US English: dogsbodynounˈdôɡzˌbädēˈdɔɡzˌbɑdi British informal A person who is given boring, menial tasks to do. I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine Example sentencesExamples - I became head of current affairs, BBC Television Northern Ireland, which sounds grand but I was basically a dogsbody.
- They soon moved in together, falling easily into stereotypical roles, he as the dominant decision-maker, she as general dogsbody.
- There were eight divers on my boat, and three non-divers as dogsbodies.
- ‘I decided to stay in the kitchen, rather than become a dogsbody in a hotel,’ said Kim.
- I reminded myself that I am professionally qualified and thus have more purpose than to act as personal assistant, clerk, typist and dogsbody to anybody.
- In early 1997, I applied to sit an exam to become a copyboy, a now extinct species of dogsbodies who once did everything journos couldn't be bothered doing.
- The author has also previously worked as a chambermaid, a waitress and an office dogsbody in Friends of the Earth.
- People seem to think we're here to drop everything when they need something, to take the blame for other people's bad behaviour and to generally take the role of dogsbody.
- It's a funny old job - part teacher, part substitute mum or dad, part social worker and part dogsbody.
- His only employment for the whole of his life was as a menial dogsbody in various Catholic Hospitals.
- Barry, are you the office dogsbody who ends up doing the rubbish jobs the other hacks can't be bothered with?
- He's a bit of a dogsbody really - Ray and Gene send him on all of the rubbish jobs.
- I worked for nothing, was the office dogsbody, but I learned a lot, explained Rory.
- He begins his story as the dogsbody of a big-time lawyer prosecuting a Roman senator for corruption.
- Pity the poor dogsbody whose job it is to deliver the trophy in time for a post-match presentation at either Ibrox or Rugby Park.
- We work with individual children, but we are treated as dogsbodies.
- Instead of having a position of any responsibility I was the bottom of the bottom, the general dogsbody.
- When I was 18 I landed a job as an exhibitions dogsbody at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- As the general dogsbody for the radio station, I'd been sent out to drag the stars back to our mobile studio, where they would be interviewed on air.
- I started work as a dogsbody in a small City advertising agency at £13 pounds 10 shillings a week, and rented a room in Crouch End for £5 a week.
Synonyms drudge, menial, menial worker, factotum, man of all work, maid of all work, servant, slave, galley slave, lackey, underling, minion
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