odd jobber
- a word derived from odd-job.
- a word derived from odd-job.
Example Sentences
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The second narrative involves down-on-his-luck Cameron, a 30-year-old garage rocker and odd-jobber whose deadbeat mother left him with his aunt in a California trailer park when he was 9 and never returned.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
To a vain or haughty man in Ishmael's situation there could scarcely have occurred a more humiliating circumstance than the constant presence of the poor, old odd-jobber, whose "boy" he had once been.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
Then he went with the same talk to five others—the blacksmith, the carpenter and odd-jobber, the storekeeper, and two men whom he had marked when he first halted near the hotel veranda.
From Bull Hunter by Brand, Max
