noun
- a person who is given menial or tedious tasks to do
Usage: British informal
Examples
- She felt like the office dogsbody, always running errands for everyone else.
- The new intern was treated as a dogsbody, making coffee and filing papers all day.
- He refused to be the team’s dogsbody any longer and demanded more meaningful work.
- As the youngest employee, she was often assigned dogsbody duties.
- The manager promised he wouldn’t be stuck as a dogsbody forever.
- Being the dogsbody meant doing all the jobs nobody else wanted.