dogsbody

noun

1. (British, Ireland)A person who does menial work, a servant.

   “Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.”

   “'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!”

   “That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody.”

   “Furthermore, there are still rather backward opinions in our society about the role of a translator. A translator is often regarded as a linguistic dogsbody.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of dog's body (“pease pudding”)

verb

1. To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work

   “Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.”