| \fak-TOH-tuh m\ | noun
1. any employee or official having many different responsibilities.
2. a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
| | Quotes | Mickey was a qualified solicitor who no longer practised the law but instead worked full-time as a factotum, fixer and odd-job man for a Premiership football club.
-- John Lanchester, Capital, 2012 | | Origin | | Factotum has roots in the Latin facere meaning "to make; do" and tōtus meaning "all." It entered English in the mid-1500s. | |
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