dogsbody

A person who does menial work, a servant.

Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.

'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!

Alternative form of dog's body (“pease pudding”)

To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work

Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.