Definition of Odd-job man

1. Noun. A man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Odd-job Man

odaliques
odalisk
odalisks
odalisques
odaller
odallers
odals
odango
odas
odaxesmus
odaxetic
odd
odd-even check
odd-job(a)
odd-job man (current term)
odd-jobber
odd-jobbers
odd-leg caliper
odd-pinnate
odd-pinnate leaf
odd-toed ungulate
odd-year run
odd and curious
odd chromosome
odd duck
odd fellow
odd fish
odd function
odd functions

Literary usage of Odd-job man

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

1. Bergson and Future Philosophy: An Essay on the Scope of Intelligence by George Rostrevor Hamilton (1921)
"A gardener and an odd job man are pictured eating the lunch provided for them by their employer—they are already half-way through it—and the following ..."

2. Harvard College: By an Oxonian by George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1894)
"... only the wealthy who can afford to keep a man-servant, so that the furnace must be tended by the master of the house and his sons, or by an odd-job man. ..."

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