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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: British naval slang dogsbody pudding made of peas, junior officer Date: 1922 chiefly British drudge 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 colloq. a drudge. 2 Naut. sl. a junior officer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dogsbodies) A dogsbody is a person who has to do all the boring jobs that nobody else wants to do. (BRIT INFORMAL) = gofer N-COUNT





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