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factotum

/fak-toh-tuhm/US // fækˈtoʊ təm //UK // (fækˈtəʊtəm) //

妗子,妗妗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
    • : any employee or official having many different responsibilities.

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Examples

  • From that day I became Mr. Moncton's factotum, his confidential clerk, and principal agent.

  • Such was Mr. Plimmins, Mr. Plaskwith's factotum, foreman in the shop, assistant editor to the Mercury.

  • Ere long he had been taken into the company as an actor, and was soon spoken of as a ‘Johannes Factotum.’

  • Peter judged him the factotum of the little household: he knew where the biscuits were kept and the state of the grocer's account.

  • I hired as errand boy and general factotum to a small grocer down near the market.