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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
factotum (n.)
 
 
is “a person with many duties, a handyman, a jack-of-all-trades” (its etymological meaning was “to do all things”), and its plural is factotums. General factotum is a redundant cliché.  1
 
 
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