Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:
factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun:
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A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
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The B.O.'s newest mouthpiece and factotum in charge of the White House propaganda, one Jay Carney, has proved to be as inept at his new job as the B.O. has been at his; birds of a feather flock together, I guess!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Mr. Hersey thus became Mr. Lewis's summertime factotum, copying pages of a play that Lewis was writing about Communism.-- Richard Severo, "John Hersey, Author of 'Hiroshima,' Is Dead at 78", New York Times, March 25, 1993
Mr. Hersey thus became Mr. Lewis's summertime factotum, copying pages of a play that Lewis was writing about Communism.-- Richard Severo, "John Hersey, Author of 'Hiroshima,' Is Dead at 78", New York Times, March 25, 1993
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She is a blind, paraplegic forensic hypnotist, and he is her brother and general factotum.-- Newgate Callendar, "Spies & Thrillers", New York Times, July 31, 1994
She is a blind, paraplegic forensic hypnotist, and he is her brother and general factotum.-- Newgate Callendar, "Spies & Thrillers", New York Times, July 31, 1994
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Factotum is from Medieval Latin, from Latin fac totum, "do everything," from facere, "to do" + totus, "all."
Factotum is from Medieval Latin, from Latin fac totum, "do everything," from facere, "to do" + totus, "all."
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