Usually means: Person doing menial or tedious tasks.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word dogsbody:

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  1. dogsbody: Merriam-Webster
  2. dogsbody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dogsbody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dogsbody: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dogsbody: Vocabulary.com
  6. dogsbody: Wordnik
  7. dogsbody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dogsbody: Wiktionary
  9. dogsbody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dogsbody: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dogsbody: Dictionary.com
  12. Dogsbody (novel), Dogsbody: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dogsbody: Rhymezone
  14. dogsbody: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dogsbody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Dogsbody: The Word Detective
  17. dogsbody: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Dogsbody: World Wide Words
  19. dogsbody: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dogsbody: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dogsbody: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. dogsbody: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (British, Ireland) A person who does menial work, a servant.
▸ verb:  To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work:

Similar:
menial, dog robber, running dog, servant, jackal, doggy, drudge, dogger, lap dog, dog-child, more...

Opposite:
boss, leader, manager, supervisor

Types:
assistant, aide, helper, stooge, gofer, lackey, flunkey, factotum, more...

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Similar:
menial, dog robber, running dog, servant, jackal, doggy, drudge, dogger, lap dog, dog-child, more...

Opposite:
boss, leader, manager, supervisor

Types:
assistant, aide, helper, stooge, gofer, lackey, flunkey, factotum, more...



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