man-friday

noun

a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.

Origin:
1885–90; after Friday, the devoted servant in Robinson Crusoe

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man Friday

—n
	a loyal male servant or assistant

[after the native in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719)]

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