handyman(n.)
此外, handy-man,"雇佣做各种工作的人",自1843年起,源自 handy + man(名词)。逐渐演变为"能胜任各种工作的人"的意义。
A handy man is so practised in the regulation of the little utilities of the house he inhabits, that by a slight touch here and there—a screw turned here and a screw loosened there, and a nail driven in time—he keeps all working smoothly, and averts those domestic catastrophes and break-downs of which Punch makes so much capital in his pictures. [Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Arthur's Home Magazine, August 1869]
一个手巧的人在他居住的房子的小细节上非常熟练,通过轻轻一触,这里转动一个螺丝,那里松开一个螺丝,及时钉上一颗钉子,他保持一切运转顺畅,并避免了那些 Punch 在他的画作中大肆渲染的家庭灾难和故障。[哈里特·比彻·斯托夫(Harriet Beecher Stowe),《亚瑟的家庭杂志》(Arthur's Home Magazine),1869年8月]
该词起源时间:1843年