[
UK
/dˈɒɡsbɒdi/
]
NOUN
- a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do
How To Use dogsbody In A Sentence
- 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.
- Barry, are you the office dogsbody who ends up doing the rubbish jobs the other hacks can't be bothered with?
- Kimo's arrival restored Dr Barbara's waning energies, and brought Neil into the group as its cadet member and dogsbody. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- 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.
- He's a bit of a dogsbody really - Ray and Gene send him on all of the rubbish jobs.
- The author has also previously worked as a chambermaid, a waitress and an office dogsbody in Friends of the Earth.
- He takes a liking to Frankie, who he rechristens Kid Frankie - everyone in a film like this has to have a nickname - and brings him on board as a chauffeur and general dogsbody.
- I did media studies and journalism at university then I came here eighteen months ago as a general dogsbody. LOST SUMMER
- His only employment for the whole of his life was as a menial dogsbody in various Catholic Hospitals.
- 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.
