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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
menial /ˈmiːnɪəl/

▶adjective (of work) requiring little skill and lacking prestige.

■ dated (of a servant) domestic.

▶noun a person with a menial job.

– derivatives
menially adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr., from mesnee ‘household’.

'menial' also found in these Oxford entries:

boots - dirty - dogsbody - drudge - fatigue - fetch - flunkey - gyp - hewer - hireling - paper-pusher - peon - plongeur - scullion - scutwork - servitor - shitwork - sizar - skivvy - ward heeler - yardbird

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