wood-and-water joey

noun

1. informal.
   a person employed to carry out menial tasks

Word History and Origins

Origin of wood-and-water joey¹

from the biblical phrase ``hewers of wood and drawers of water'' (Joshua 9:21) and joey

Example Sentences

If anyone was to blame for Biddy's adventure, it was your wood-and-water joey—or your Chinamen—or whoever's business it may have been to see that the goats were properly penned.

From Project Gutenberg

I'm not going to be wood-and-water Joey, I can tell ye, not for you nor no other men.

From Project Gutenberg