- 1水電師傅、修繕的人（台灣口語「水電」常統稱家裡會修東西的人，不一定只做水管或電路）
A handyman is a person who does many small, practical jobs in a house: a tap that drips, a shelf that will not stay up, a lock that sticks, a wall that needs paint. You call one when you need real help with your hands, but the job is not big enough — or not specialised enough — for a , an , or a builder on their own. Though actually, a good handyman often does a little of those things too, if the work is simple; the line is messy in real life. The word feels everyday and friendly, the sort of thing you see on a small card in a shop window, not on a government form. It still usually ends in -man even when a woman does the work. A few people say handyperson; most speakers have not switched.
組成handy (good with your hands; from hand + -y) + -man (person).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
handymannoun/ˈhændimæn/
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informalA person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
- I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.
- There was one thing she wanted; she said to hubby dear, / "The time would pass more quickly if I had a rocking chair." / [...] As Strings is such a handyman, by night the job was done / He took that thing upstairs and said, "Now try this out for fun."
handymanverb/ˈhændimæn/
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informalTo work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
- Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.
- My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.
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