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Noun: dogsbody  'dógz,bó-dee
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. A worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do
    "As the office dogsbody, he was always stuck with filing and photocopying"
Verb: dogsbody  'dógz,bó-dee
Usage: Brit
  1. Act as a dogsbody
    "The intern was often asked to dogsbody for the senior staff"

Derived forms: dogsbodied, dogsbodies, dogsbodying

Type of: prole [informal], proletarian, worker

Encyclopedia: Dogsbody