menial

Definition

Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.

Etymology

From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "menial job"