What's the difference between handyman and sciolist?

Handyman


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  • (1) An offer of help from handyman service The_Multiman – "#riotcleanup if you have a shop or home that has been affected my handymen will volunteer in our spare time to help with any repairs!
  • (2) But there are also smaller changes, which cost the local authority little but can have a big impact in terms of how secure care leavers feel, such as a visit from a handyman when they move into their own home, to help them put up curtain poles and other such tasks – typically the role of a parent.
  • (3) In May an Israeli employment court awarded compensation to a former handyman in the prime minister’s home, accepting the worker’s claims of abusive terms of employment by Sara Netanyahu.
  • (4) His gift of writing supple, salty dialogue for working-class characters was similarly displayed in Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976-77), a series developed from his own single play and starring Bill Maynard as the inept handyman with the thumbs-up catchphrase "Magic!"
  • (5) Sidney Poitier blazed a trail in the 60s for Lilies of the Field , winning best actor for his role as a handyman helping a group of nuns build a chapel in the desert.
  • (6) He now works as a handyman for the council, and his wife, Omkeltoum, is expecting another child.
  • (7) Angel Figueroa, 46, a Guatemalan former handyman, boasted of knowing Los Angeles “like the palm of my hand” but feared he would never see it or his children again.
  • (8) Thoreau was 27 when he took up residence in the cabin by Walden Pond; he had graduated from Harvard 19th in his class, tried teaching, helped his father in the family pencil business, did local odd jobs for a dollar a day, lived with the Emersons for two years as handyman and gardener, left Long Island after a brief spell of tutoring and testing the literary market, and, despite Emerson's sponsorship and a few poems and essays in the Transcendentalist quarterly The Dial, had made no mark.
  • (9) Services offered include housekeeping, transportation, yard care, and handyman services.
  • (10) On leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.
  • (11) Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences.
  • (12) Duque now works as a handyman and his wife assists him.
  • (13) My plan was to live in a bread delivery van that I’d converted and offer people handyman services in return for payment in kind.
  • (14) Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns.
  • (15) Kelly Frank, who worked as a handyman on the ranch, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Sciolist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

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