From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 18:54:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3ea5a951dd8ffb58fa4d14c1ec8b640@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481CB59E.5090104@kix.es>
> factotum comes from the Charles Bukowski's book?
i thought the reference was older
minooka; dict
*/factotum/
1 Fac*to"tum
*1
Fac*to"tum (făk*tō"tŭm), n.; pl. Factotums (- tŭmz). [L., do
everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See /Fact/,
and /Total/.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
B. Jonson.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 18:57 Rodolfo kix Garcia
2008-05-03 22:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-05-03 23:01 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04 1:37 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-04 1:45 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-04 1:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-04 5:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-06 9:51 ` roger peppe
2008-05-06 13:57 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-05-06 14:08 ` erik quanstrom
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