menial

Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.

She hung round him, watching his every look as if she grudged the veriest menial offices from the servants; and she almost scolded him for not eating, when he had done justice enough to the good things set before him to have satisfied even the cook herself.

She was not proposing to go out again, so he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.

Of or relating to unskilled work.

menial job

Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.

Servile; low; mean.

a menial wretch

A servant, especially a domestic servant.

“Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the lute for them when they please to listen; […]”

But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials.

A person who has a subservient nature.