Timeline for Does "anything man" exist?
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| Aug 4, 2011 at 15:22 | vote | accept | Peter Mortensen | ||
| Jul 30, 2011 at 16:12 | comment | added | Daniel | @nico: I personally love that word, and keep wondering why it's not used more often. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 16:11 | comment | added | nico | @drm: I mostly heard it associated with master of none. However I agree that it can be used without any negative acception. I would however prefer factotum in that case. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 15:47 | comment | added | Daniel | @nico: I disagree. This site is the fourth result of googling jack-of-all-trades (the first two refer to Wikipedia's Jack of all trades, master of none page). Almost every time I've seen it used, it was used without a trace of negativity. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 15:40 | comment | added | Peter Shor | There's also gofer, which is someone who does assorted unskilled tasks, although the word the OP wants would need more skilled work than a gofer usually does. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 15:07 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | I think factotum comes closest, given the context. However Wiktionary says "dated". | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 15:03 | comment | added | nico | Jack of all trades has a negative connotation to it, generally being seen in the sentence Jack of all trades, master of none. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 14:21 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Also chief cook and bottle washer, which notwithstanding Wikipedia's definition, I don't particularly associate with being "the boss" so much as "the poor sod who has to do just about everything". | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 13:51 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2011 at 13:48 | comment | added | Daniel | I believed Dictionary.com at first for proteus and pantologist, but vetoed them after seeing their definition. | |
| Jul 30, 2011 at 13:43 | history | answered | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |