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factotum: Word of the Day

Mar. 04, 2016

factotum \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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