flunkey (around)
v. do odd jobs.
See also: flunkey
- 1908  ". . . Just cook and clean up the bunk-house, and saw wood for the stoves and flunkey around to fill in time."
- 1949  The steamshovel pilot never tried to fly again. After many weeks he hobbled back to the hotel on crutches and made a dicker to flunkey around for his board until he got strong.