maid of all work

noun

1. a maid who does all types of housework
2. a general factotum

Example Sentences

Grandma was maid of all work from morning to night.

From Literature

The Sea-Maiden landed at Norfolk in Virginia, and Essie’s indenture was bought by a “small planter,” a tobacco farmer named John Richardson, for his wife had died of the childbirth fever a week after giving birth to his daughter, and he had need of a wet-nurse and a maid of all work upon his smallholding.

From Literature

The magazine also includes work by six of his ten siblings and an advertisement for a “maid of all work” from a contributor identified as “L.L.”

From Time

Nursing was done by servants, and her family looked upon her idea, she wrote, as if she’d “gone to be a maid of all work.”

From New York Times

According to the Victorian author Mrs Beeton, in The Book of Household Management, the maid of all work was to be pitied.

From BBC