英语词汇“dogsbody”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

dogsbody

释义

ˈdog's body, dog's-body, dogsbody
1. A sailor's name for dried pease boiled in a cloth; see also quot. 1924.
1818‘A. Burton’ Adv. J. Newcome ii. 76 I'll get you the Dog's-body Squeezer.1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxviii. 33 What ungrateful sailors call by the harsh epithets of ‘junk’ and ‘dog's body’.1924R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 38 Sea-biscuits soaked into a pulp with water and sugar, are known as ‘dogs-body’.
2. A junior person, esp. one to whom a variety of menial tasks is given; a drudge, a general utility person. colloq.
1922T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 365 I'll have got used to being a dog's body.1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 80 Dogsbody, a Midshipman. A humorous semi-sarcastic colloquialism for any junior officer, R.N. E.g., ‘He's only a dogsbody sub’.1928Daily Express 3 Apr. 13/2 A midshipman is known..in the service as a ‘snottie’... If he is a junior midshipman he is also a ‘dog's body’. I defy anyone to be accurate and sentimental about a snottie who is a dog's body.1932H. Simpson Boomerang ix. 184 His post of dog's-body..left him no leisure at all.1934M. Hodge Wind & Rain ii. i. 57 Oh, no. I don't understand anything! I'm just ‘a dog's body’.1942M. Dickens One Pair of Feet vii. 116 People who told me I should be a house-parlourmaid ‘on Privates [sc. private wards]’ had over-estimated. I was Dogsbody.1950L. A. G. Strong Which I Never v. 169 As Assistant Stage Manager and general dog's body, she was grossly overworked and supremely happy.1955H. Spring These Lovers fled Away vii. 205 My status was never defined. I was everybody's dog's-body.Ibid. xvii. 481 Introduced to a secretary whose dog's-body she was to be.1967Listener 14 Sept. 332/3, I was a sort of general dogsbody to begin with—assistant stage-manager, and what have you.

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