menial
adj/ˈmiːni.əl/
Etymology
From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
- derived from *mānsiōnāta✻
- derived from mesnal
- inherited from meyneal
Definitions
Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
- She was not proposing to go out again, so he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.
Of or relating to unskilled work.
- menial job
- Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.
Servile
Servile; low; mean.
- a menial wretch
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A servant, especially a domestic servant.
- But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials.
A person who has a subservient nature.
The neighborhood
- neighbormansion
- neighbormaison
- neighbormaisonette
- neighbormenage
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for menial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA