dogsbody
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- noun
- /ˈdɔɡzˌbɑdi/
- UK
- Having a couple of police officers forcibly hold a woman down while a sergeant shoves his hand up her vagina on the grounds that "It's just Mabel Dogsbody again and everybody in town knows about Mabel" really is illegal.
Examples
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Poor dogsbody.
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What he had me doing was mostly dogsbody work.
Fiction book (2001) -
The wood job might not last, so it's best if you can leverage it into dogsbody work unless you're on a journey.
Blog text (8) -
Brad concentrated on Raymond Masters, Dr. Maelstrom's dogsbody, for all his brilliance.
Fiction book (1995) -
As the new intern, I often felt like a dogsbody, running errands and completing tasks that no one else wanted to do.
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In many offices, junior staff members frequently act as dogsbodys, handling the tedious chores that others avoid.
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He was tired of being treated like a dogsbody and wanted more meaningful work instead of just doing the dirty jobs.
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Etymology
Dogsbody comes from an old navy phrase dog's body, which was a name for 'cheap food' given to young sailors. People then used the phrase for those sailors who did the small, dirty jobs, so a dogsbody today is someone given the boring, low work that others avoid.