gal Friday

American  

noun

1. Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.

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Sensitive Note

See girl.

Etymology

Origin of gal Friday

First recorded in 1955–60; modeled on man Friday

Example Sentences

They treated him like he was their witness when, in fact, his testimony was pivotal to the prosecution The same with his former gal friday, Hope Hicks.

From Salon

“She became Norm’s sort of gal Friday and manager,” says Downey, the longtime SNL writer.

From Washington Post

I act as a sort of Gal Friday in my office.

From Slate

In less culturally sensitive times, Judi would have been described as Dave’s “Gal Friday,” but today she’s probably on the books as a “multiplatform content-generation facilitator,” because that’s what all newspaper jobs sound like.

From Washington Post

Always the Gal Friday, she made frequent, self-deprecating jokes about her spinsterhood and her futile attempts to get Sam the Butcher, her only suitor, to come around to the idea of commitment.

From Washington Post