factotum

“Squire is the protecting power, but his factotum is the active and busy agent.”

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists

“When he first showed up at Sun Studios, pestering them to get an audition, Marion Kisko (ph), who was the secretary and kind of factotum there, she asked him what kind of music he sang and famously he said, I sing all kinds.”

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“He was greatly liked, and the late Sir George Barlow, a landed proprietor of the neighbourhood, made him a kind of factotum on his estate.”

Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men

“M'Clutchy rose from the humble office of process-server to that of bailiff's follower, bailiff, head-bailiff, barony constable, until, finally, he felt himself a kind of factotum on the Castle Cumber property; and in proportion as he rose, so did his manners rise with him.”

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

“I was, during several years, a kind of factotum servant to a country clergyman, where I pickt up a good many scraps of learning, particularly in some branches of the mathematics.”

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

“factotum," to find out what the Opposition was going to do.”

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2

“In the bungalow at Mill Valley he lived alone, save for Lee Sing, the Chinese cook and factotum, who knew much about the strangeness of his master, who was paid well for saying nothing, and who never did say anything.”

When the World Was Young

“Class-factotum -- You brought up a very good point!”

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“So, defying belief, a managerial factotum, who just happens to know the role, is shunted on posing as the missing Morelli.”

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