Definitions
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Word origin
From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).
Used in a sentence
“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”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Low-skill, routine work”6 letters
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