a person employed to do a wide variety of jobs for somebody 勤杂工;事务总管 I became her assistant and general factotum. 我成了她的助手和总杂役。
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister) factotum, translating roughly as ‘master of everything’, and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus).