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factotum

(n): a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
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about 1 year ago kenspeckle said: Best used by Robert Greene in the phrase Johannes factotum, which he made to insult Shakespeare.

From the pamphlet Groatsworth of Wit: Shakespeare is "an absolute Johannes fac totum, {who} is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey." Some elaboration here.

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