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Saturday 6 April 2013

F is For Factotum


Today's previously unknown word is:


factotum n a person employed to do all kinds of work [Latin fac! do! + totum all]

Sounds kind of like a 'jack of all trades'.

I will not see you tomorrow as Sundays are our days off in the A To Z Challenge - so I will see you Monday instead.

5 comments:

Lilia Tombs said...

I'm enjoying learning new words along with you! Enjoy your day off & good luck with the rest of A-Z :)

Robin said...

factotum: jack of all trades, I didn't know this one.

Thanks for your posts!

Fellow A to Z blogger

Jo said...

Not a word used much in North America, more often heard in the UK. Well in my day that is.

JO ON FOOD, MY TRAVELS AND A SCENT OF CHOCOLATE

Nick Wilford said...

It's one of those words that I've heard a bit but didn't really know what it meant. So it's kind of like an odd job man.

Enjoy the "day of rest"!

loverofwords said...

Great word, I have heard it before but never its meaning.