odd-job

[od-job]

verb (used without object)

odd-jobbed, odd-jobbing 

1. to work at a series of unrelated or unspecialized jobs, often of a low-paying or menial nature.

Other Word Forms

• odd jobber noun
• odd-jobber noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of odd-job¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

A number of people - including the man now convicted of her murder, neighbour and odd-job man David Newton - were arrested, but nobody was charged and the case lingered for years as unsolved.

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Panting heavily after digging the grave, shaking his head in dismay, local locksmith and odd-job man Urii Churachenko bent down and placed two cigarettes in the earth as a token for his friend.

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Dutch media identified him as Joseph B, an Austrian odd-job man who had a small workshop on an industrial estate in the nearby town of Meppel.

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She tweeted a photo of the camp odd-job man, whose name she never knew, and her message was retweeted 3,000 times which enabled her to find him.

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The tech manager said her mother, who was also given a bike, believes the man was nicknamed "Ab" and he was an odd-job staffer.

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