{"id":237,"date":"2016-09-22T02:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-09-22T02:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T02:45:48","slug":"dogsbody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/dogsbody-2\/","title":{"rendered":"dogsbody"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “dogsbody”, somewhat unsurprisingly, is a\u00a0word\u00a0with less definitions than what others have found. The OED only cites two different forms of the term, both as a noun and a verb. In its noun form, dogsbody has three definitions:<\/p>\n

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  1. n. nautical slang: Peas boiled in a cloth, pease pudding<\/li>\n
  2. n. sea biscuits softened in water, with sugar added.<\/li>\n
  3. n. a junior officer or midshipman<\/li>\n
  4. n. (colloquial) a person who is given menial tasks<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In its verb form, the OED only cites one definition for the verb form of “dogsbody” which is:<\/p>\n

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    1. to act or work as a dogsbody; to carry out menial tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The term “dogsbody”, somewhat unsurprisingly, is a\u00a0word\u00a0with less definitions than what others have found. The OED only cites two different forms of the term, both as a noun and a verb. In its noun form, dogsbody has three definitions: n. nautical slang: Peas boiled in a cloth, pease pudding n. sea biscuits softened in water, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}