(n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
(2) But since Blair's private office factotum, Jeremy Heywood, is now to be Cameron's cabinet secretary, Downing Street does feel a bit dynastic.
(3) They want to tell us about the "secret window" in Ullman's office, the significance of the number 42, and "the mysterious Bill Watson", a lowly hotel factotum who may just be CIA.
(4) The Express Newspapers mogul, Richard Desmond, can't bear the Telegraph Media Group factotum, Lord (Guy) Black, a key architect of the industry's plan for beefed up self-regulation.
(5) On the day before The Great Gatsby opens this year's Cannes film festival, the nearby Carlton Hotel has been recast as a chaotic factory of harried PRs and industry factotums.
(6) Despite much angsty speculation by Guardian colleagues that Stevens's star wattage would allow him to beef up his part at the expense of theirs, his role, by the final cut, had been reduced to a cameo as grouchy factotum, grumbling in turn about Assange and Guardian investigative reporter Nick Davies .
(7) The actor claims to have had enough of liberal hypocrites and the PC police; of cowardly festival factotums and of cynical hacks who deliberately misconstrue jokes.
(8) I’ve also watched some television appearances by Evan McMullin, a 40-year-old factotum of the Republican party, who is running as an independent candidate.
Sciolist
Definition:
(n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.