dogsbody

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Aiding everyone is Lisa Kwak as The Mute, a sort of onstage stagehand and dogsbody who distributes props as needed, moves set pieces and generally keeps the show moving.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Shelley is forbearance personified but she’s tired of being taken by Mira “for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along.”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Powell stayed at Duckworth’s, as an all-purpose dogsbody, for ten mostly unhappy years.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

I was the dogsbody of the defence team, fetching books and herding witnesses.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2018

Manchester City's match programme delivered a temptation impossible for fate to resist when it described Luis Suarez as "the dogsbody in this trio of artful dodgers" in comparison to Barcelona superstars Lionel Messi and Neymar.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2015