/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Factotum
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
One who does for his employer all sorts of services. Sometimes called a Johan’nes Facto’tum. Our “Jack-of-all-trades” does not mean a factotum, but one who does odd jobs for anyone who will pay him. (Latin, faccre totum, to do everything required.)
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 