[
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 worked for nothing, was the office dogsbody, but I learned a lot, explained Rory.
- He begins his story as the dogsbody of a big-time lawyer prosecuting a Roman senator for corruption.
- I became head of current affairs, BBC Television Northern Ireland, which sounds grand but I was basically a dogsbody.
- A fair number of people in LA now knew Peter only as Joseph's dogsbody. DEAD LINES
- They soon moved in together, falling easily into stereotypical roles, he as the dominant decision-maker, she as general dogsbody.
- A Third Secretary, a dogsbody, fetching and carrying for the ambassador, and sometimes only the counsellor. KARA KUSH
- I spent the summer helping out as a general dogsbody on the local paper.
- ‘I decided to stay in the kitchen, rather than become a dogsbody in a hotel,’ said Kim.
- Instead of having a position of any responsibility I was the bottom of the bottom, the general dogsbody.
- As the general dogsbody for the radio station, I'd been sent out to drag the stars back to our mobile studio, where they would be interviewed on air.
