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dogsbody

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dogs·bod·y /ˈdɒɡzˌbɒdi $ ˈdɒːɡzˌbɑːdi/ noun (plural dogsbodies) [countable] British English  JOB/TASKsomeone who has to do all the small boring jobs that no one else wants to do 勤杂工,打杂的人 I spent the summer helping out as a general dogsbody. 这个夏天我帮忙做杂务工。
Examples from the Corpus
dogsbodyI got myself a job as a typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine.I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow.But I act as general dogsbody, carry books, go fetch, good boy, that kind of thing.I've got a crummy ordinary dogsbody job.She was evidently their dogsbody, used for tasks which no one else was prepared to take on.general dogsbodyI got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine we thought was being financed from Moscow.But I act as general dogsbody, carry books, go fetch, good boy, that kind of thing.
From Longman Business Dictionarydogsbodydogs‧bod‧y /ˈdɒgzˌbɒdiˈdɒːgzˌbɑːdi/ noun (plural dogsbodies) [countable] British English informal someone who is given the uninteresting or unpleasant jobs to doI got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine.
dogs·bod·y nounChineseSyllable
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dogsbody
dogsbody /ˈdɒɡzˌbɒdi $ ˈdɒːɡzˌbɑːdi/ noun (plural dogsbodies) [countable] British English
someone who has to do all the small boring jobs that no one else wants to do:
    I spent the summer helping out as a general dogsbody.


dogs·bodyBrE /ˈdɒɡzbɒdi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdɔːɡzbɑːdi/ 🔊 noun (
plural
dogs·bodies
)
(BrE, informal)
a person who does all the boring jobs that nobody else wants to do, and who is treated as being less important than other people 勤杂工;干杂活的人