menial

Etymology

From Middle English meyneal, from Anglo-Norman mesnal, from maisnee (“household”), from Vulgar Latin mansionata, from Latin mānsiō (“house”).

adj

1. Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
2. Of or relating to unskilled work.
   menial job
   For instance, controlling for the above-mentioned variables, migrants to Tangerang or Samarinda (rather than Medan) have a significantly greater chance of getting a craft (as opposed to menial) job. 2011, Chris Manning, Sudarno Sumarto, Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia
3. Servile; low; mean.
   a menial wretch

noun

1. A servant, especially a domestic servant.
   Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best? a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
   The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
2. A person who has a subservient nature.