Meanings (ES + gloss)
doméstico • servil
Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
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 enou…
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.
de baja categoría • de poca importancia
Of or relating to unskilled work.
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.
menial job
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