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  • noun Plural form of dogsbody.

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Examples

  • It turned out that Grace had lots of malaises, and what she needed was not so much a paid companion but an insomniac army of major-domos, footmen, servants, nurses, and dogsbodies.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • All this factionalism comes to a head in the city of Scree with every magic man, mighty warrior, and their dogs and dogsbodies putting in an appearance.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Twilight Herald - Tom Lloyd Blue Tyson 2009

  • En masse, the PAs, Wardrobe Managers, Personal Managers, Exercise Coaches, Bodyguards and all the other dogsbodies that make up the contemporary celebrity entourage would descend on Coathanger and demand that he begin fawning over ‘their’ celebrity.

    Extreme Sports David Hadley 2009

  • En masse, the PAs, Wardrobe Managers, Personal Managers, Exercise Coaches, Bodyguards and all the other dogsbodies that make up the contemporary celebrity entourage would descend on Coathanger and demand that he begin fawning over ‘their’ celebrity.

    Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009

  • Your article, though, fails to separate clearly the Katos, gofers, dogsbodies and buddies from the men and women who function professionally as personal assistants.

    Further Commandments of Charlton Heston 2008

  • My own happy band of uniformed dogsbodies are well used to newly promoted or acting sergeants arriving from such weird and wonderful departments as “covert unit”, “firearms” or “community liaison”.

    The Policeman's Blog 2006

  • They were nothing more than dogsbodies for the Dark, if they were human.

    Watcher 3] Fire Watcher Saintcrow, Lilith 2006

  • Sending nonhumans instead of dogsbodies in to do a catch-and-transport was definitely/not/something the

    Watcher 3] Fire Watcher Saintcrow, Lilith 2006

  • Hondagneu-Sotelo points out that although these women don't like to think of themselves as members of the landed gentry, paternalistically doling out favors to humble dogsbodies, neither are they eager to think of themselves as "employers" in the contemporary American sense of the word, or of their homes as workplaces.

    How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

  • Hondagneu-Sotelo points out that although these women don't like to think of themselves as members of the landed gentry, paternalistically doling out favors to humble dogsbodies, neither are they eager to think of themselves as "employers" in the contemporary American sense of the word, or of their homes as workplaces.

    How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement 2004

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