| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun factotum.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (factotum) | 1. A servant employed to do a variety of jobs.[Wordnet]. 2. A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.[Websters]. | |
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Date "FACTOTUMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Specialty Definition: factotum
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] a servant employed to do all kinds of work.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | Factotum One who does for his employer all sorts of services. Sometimes called a Johannes Factotum. Our "Jack-of-all-trades" does not mean a factotum, but one who does odd jobs for anyone who will pay him. (Latin, facere totum, to do everything required.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Technology | A printer's ornament in wood or metal, designed with a space in the center, into which a unit of type bearing any letter of the alphabet can be inserted to print a large capital letter at the beginning of a chapter. In early printing, factotum initials were usually decorated. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Factotum is a 1975 novel in which Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, gets and loses jobs. The plot is simple but the tone is fascinating. Chinaski's journey through different jobs is always accompanied by alcohol, sex, women and the usual humourous and sharp wit and depression. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (dated) A general servant. 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 73, I had almost forgotten Monee, the grinning old man who prepared our meal. […] He was Po-Po's factotum—cook, butler, and climber of the bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees; and, added to all else, a mighty favourite with his mistress; with whom he would sit smoking and gossiping by the hour. (references) | 2: [Noun] (dated) A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities. (references) | 3: [Noun] idiom "Jack of all trades". (references) |
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Topics by Level of Interest: factotum | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Factotum | 16 | Factotum | 16 | |
| Factotum (film) | 8 | Factotum (film) | 8 | |
| Largo al factotum | 6 | Factotum (novel) | 3 | |
| Factotum (software) | 3 | Factotum (software) | 3 | |
| Factotum (novel) | 3 | Largo al factotum | 6 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
