Definition of Man Friday

1. Noun. The most helpful assistant.

Exact synonyms: Chief Assistant, Right-hand Man
Generic synonyms: Assistant, Help, Helper, Supporter

Definition of Man Friday

1. Noun. A right-hand man ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Man Friday

man-pussies
man-size
man-sized
man-stealer
man-stealers
man-tiger
man-tigers
man-to-man
man-to-man defense
man-witch
man-year
man-years
man Friday (current term)
man about town
man alive
man and boy
man and wife
man bag
man boob
man boobs
man catcher
man cave
man caves
man child
man children
man crushes

Literary usage of Man Friday

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The life and ... adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1884)
"My man Friday being next to me, I bade him ride up, and see what was the matter. ... It was happy for the poor man that it was my man Friday; for he, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"a look at those patterns," when I heard the rattle of gravel flung from flying feet, and saw man Friday tear around the house, up the porch steps, ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A sort of Robinson Crusoe, who baud a chimpanzee for hie "man Friday." The story relates the adventures and sufferings of an English hermit named Philip ..."

4. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"—What is that ? said I. Why, says he, it is, that you will leave your man Friday with me, to be my interpreter to them, and to assist me; for without some ..."

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