Word of the Day: FACTOTUM

Someone who does it all

factotum (noun) - an official, employee, or servant with many duties or responsibilities; a jack of all trades [fak-toh-tuhm]

BREAKDOWN: FAC- (make or do) + TOT- (all) + -UM (state)

See also: artifice, beneficiary, edifice, officious, ramification, suffice

“...In ‘Lost in Space’, the nineteen-sixties science-fiction series, the robot was an American-made factotum with a torso like a beer keg, limbs like aluminum ducts, and the verbal ability of a liberal-arts student.” –Troy Patterson

In this case, the book is more well-known than the word

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