handyman
/ˈhændimæn/
handyman noun: a person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
Noun
handyman (plural handymen)
- 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."1983, Stan Rogers, “Strings and Dory Plug”, in For the Family
- Synonyms:
- odd-job man
Verb
handyman (third-person singular simple present handymans, present participle handymanning, simple past and past participle handymanned)
- 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.2014, Peter Wells, Boy Overboard
- 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.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, page 5
handyman meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
handyman in Tamil
- பழுதுபார்க்கும் வேலையாள்
handyman in Malayalam
- odd-jobber, odd-job man, factotum
- ചില്ലറജോലിക്കാരൻ, കിങ്കരൻ, കയ്യാൾ, പലവേലക്കാരൻ, ചില്ലറ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, ശിങ്കിടി
Examples of handyman in a sentence
- We can't employ a gardener as well as a handyman. Think of the expense!
- Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else.
- A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it.
Synonyms of handyman
Forms of handyman
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | handymen |
| alternative form (dated) | handiman |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | handymans |
| present participle | handymanning |
| past participle | handymanned |
| past | handymanned |
Origin of handyman
From handy + -man.
Words formed from handyman
Phrases with handyman
Questions about handyman
- What does handyman mean?
- Handyman means a person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
- What is handyman in Tamil?
- Handyman in Tamil is பழுதுபார்க்கும் வேலையாள். See Handyman meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is handyman?
- Handyman can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce handyman?
- Handyman is pronounced /ˈhændimæn/.
- What is the plural of handyman?
- The plural of handyman is handymen.
Words near handyman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: handyman (page history and authors); handyman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); handyman (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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