factotum
noun
[ fakˈtəʊtəm ]
• an employee who does all kinds of work.
• "he was employed as the general factotum"
Similar:
odd-job man,
(general) handyman,
general employee,
man of all work,
maid of all work,
jack of all trades,
personal assistant,
PA,
knockabout,
(Mr) Fixit,
man/girl Friday,
body man,
Origin:
mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister factotum ), translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ).
