bottlewasher

English

Alternative forms

  • bottle washer

Etymology

From bottle +‎ washer.

Noun

bottlewasher (plural bottlewashers)

  1. A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles.
    Coordinate term: dishwasher
  2. A general factotum.
    • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page 47:
      The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.

Derived terms

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