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A dogsbody is the person who gets all the small, boring jobs nobody else wants — making tea, carrying boxes, posting letters, wiping cups. It is informal British English; Americans almost never say it. The word is a little old-fashioned, but offices, shops, kitchens, and film sets still use it, often with a shrug: “I’m just the dogsbody around here.” It can sound sorry for that person, or they can use it about themselves without making a fuss. It is not a real job title, and it is not as strong as calling someone a slave; it names the leftover role you fall into. You can also use it as a verb: to dogsbody is to do those leftover jobs for someone.
打雜的、跑腿的（英式口語）
組成dog + -s- + body. British navy slang from 1818, first a rude name for pease pudding (a dull mash of peas), as if it were mashed dog meat — the same kind of joke as “dog’s breakfast” for a mess. In the 1900s it was used for low-ranked sailors, then for anyone stuck with the small, unwanted jobs.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dogsbodynoun/ˈdɒɡz.bɒ.dɪ/
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A person who does menial work, a servant.
- Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.
- 'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!
dogsbodyverb/ˈdɒɡz.bɒ.dɪ/
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To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work
- Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。