Factoʹtum
. One who does for his employer all sorts of services. Sometimes called a Johanʹnes Factoʹtum. Our “Jack-of-all-trades” does not mean a factotum, but one who does odd jobs for anyone who will pay him. (Latin, faccre totum, to do everything required.)
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.