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factotum

[ UK /fˈæktɒtəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a servant employed to do a variety of jobs

How To Use factotum In A Sentence

  • I've heard politicians and their factotums express themselves in this way about people who are so angry they can barely express themselves, or who have grievances that they cannot articulate properly.
  • When his grandson was born in 1604, his family of three had four servants, apart from his factotum and sole studio assistant, Francisco de Preboste.
  • He seems nothing more than a general factotum but in fact he's the power behind the throne at Bangazi. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • We need a factotum to take care of the workshop.
  • She was a general factotum at the restaurant - washing dishes, cleaning the floors and polishing the furniture.
  • I became her assistant and general factotum.
  • Emily, as her loyal factotum explains, is happiest and best at taking care of other people.
  • Alain Locke's role as a general factotum of the Harlem Renaissance has tended to overshadow the full dimensions of an active and productive life.
  • Artificer, constructor, factotum, a man who loves impossible bets, he says: ‘How did the idea come to me to construct the greatest globe of the world in the world?’
  • If I stayed at Park Lane it would be to wither away in a backwater as Geoffrey's factotum. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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