Word For The Day - FACTOTUM

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[Red Badger]

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fac·to·tum fakˈtōdəm/ noun noun: factotum; plural noun: factotums

an employee who does all kinds of work. "he was employed as the general factotum" synonyms: handyman, jack of all trades; More assistant, man Friday, gal/girl Friday; gofer; informalMr./Ms. Fix-It "back then, these wealthy college boys made sure their personal factotums were just a whistle away"

Origin mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister ) factotum, translating roughly as ‘master of everything,’ and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus ).

[Red Badger]

[left that other site]

Just came across that word yesterday!

I was discussing “The Brothers Karamazov” and the character of Grigory was described as a “factotam “who raised the brothers, because their father didn’t care about them.

Weird...I had not seen the word in print before, and now twice in as many days.

[Red Badger]

I saw it a few days ago in a news article....................

[left that other site]

Interesting!

[ptsal]

Factotum

Dossiers founded on whole cloth,
while wanting a whitewash of truth.

Scammers and schemers snitching,
with the media bitching.

No wonder then that Brock, the word-bender,
consulted Schrödinger’s cat, the ultimate factotum.

[IronJack]

And the most famous factotum of them all ...

Figaro. Factotum de la citta.

[Red Badger]

I thought he was a barber in Seville..................

[moovova]

As Uncle Si would say..."If you want something done, get a good ol' boy to do it. That's a factotum, Jack!"

[Ciexyz]

This word sounds like lawyer vocabulary.

[shibumi]

John Rawnsley - The Greatest Factotum

[IronJack]

His most famous aria, Largo al factotum, boasts that he is “factotum della citta” — factotum of the city. That city, of course, being Seville.

But Figaro is much more than a barber ...

[Hawthorn]

>> an employee who does all kinds of work <<

A/K/A “flunky”

[Red Badger]

gopher, etc..............

[Robert A Cook PE]

Newsweak and Time, Life, Look, and USNews used to approximate journalism, even though all were left-leaning even in the mid-60’s. Now, with all propaganda all the time, they’re not even factorhumm’s any more.

[Mears]

“they’re not even factorhumm’s any more.”

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They certainly aren’t.:-)

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[Red Badger]

Latin...................

[Red Badger]

You will get no facts from these factotums........................

[Texan5]

We had to let off work when it started to drizzle just before noon-but at least it is a balmy 51-1st day it has been above freezing in a week-

Hillary Clinton’s captive factotum
Is the silent and sour Huma Abedin-
On a leash as part of that illusion
That Hillary is actually the queen

And so she wouldn’t leave the manor
And go get married to some stranger
Bill auctioned her off to that fool
Anthony Weiner-aka Carlos Danger

After his salacious public sexting
Huma had finally just had enough-
But it’s too late-she’s been used
To e- mail Carlos top secret stuff...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The dems, for whom truth is verboten
Use Nancy or Chuck as factotum
For lying or crying
Or denying they’re spying
“Out” is the way we should vote ‘em