英和和英

別の表記

• handiman (dated)

語源

handy +‎ -man

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhændimæn/

名詞

handyman (複数形 handymen)

1. (informal) A person who does small tasks and odd jobs

同意語

• jack of all trades
• odd-job man

派生語

• handyman special

動詞

handyman (三人称単数 現在形 handymans, 現在分詞 handymanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 handymanned)

1. To work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
   • 2014, Peter Wells, Boy Overboard:

     Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.

   • 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, page 5:

     My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.

   • 2020, Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped:

     They handymanned all week. And every night Grandad would come in with rosy cheeks and a huge appetite and compliment my mom on what a great cook she was.