Alternative spellings

• Jack of all trades, Jack of all Trades, Jack-of-all-trades, jack-of-all-trades

Noun

1. One competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 25:

     "I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick.

   • 1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Where There's A Will, Ch. 5:

     A fellow can always get some sort of a job—I was coming up here to see if they needed an extra clerk or a waiter, or chauffeur, or anything that meant a roof and something to eat—but I suppose they don't need a jack-of-all-trades.