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man Friday n

A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man; also, a trusted male companion. [...] The English writer Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, from which the term originates, was published on 6 May 1719 according to the Gregorian calendar.

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