factotum's Usage Examples:

Ostensibly, he was only the Holstein minister at Charles's court, in reality he was everything in Sweden except a Swedish subject - finance minister, plenipotentiary to foreign powers, factotum, and responsible to the king alone, though he had not a line of instructions.

Gallop off to our Moscow estate, he said to the factotum who appeared at his call.

Under the superintendence of the Curia Regis and the exchequer, the sheriff still remained the kings factotum in local affairs.

His activity was prodigious, and Catharine called him her factotum.

He was so much the king's factotum that Froissart (i.

Enter, stage right, Carol Willis, chief factotum and all-round good egg.

Another constitutional ~dvance was that which substituted coroners, knights chosen by the county court, for the kings old factotum the sheriff in the duty of holding the pleas of the crown, i.

He was an ex-abbe who had shown his devotion to his mistress when her life was threatened, and henceforward was installed at Nohant as factotum.

Synonyms:

retainer, servant,

Antonyms:

nonworker,