handyman

noun

person who works in general building maintenance

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈhændimæn/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English handy Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English handyman From handy + -man.

A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
“I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.”
“There was one thing she wanted; she said to hubby dear, / "The time would pass more quickly if I had a rocking chair." / [...] As Strings is such a handyman, by night the job was done / He took that thing upstairs and said, "Now try this out for fun."”

verb

To work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
“Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.”
“My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.”