bottlewasher

or bot·tle-wash·er

[ bot-l-wosh-er, -waw-sher ]

noun
  1. a person or machine that washes bottles.

Idioms about bottlewasher

  1. chief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.

Origin of bottlewasher

1
First recorded in 1860–65; bottle1 + washer

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How to use bottlewasher in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for bottle-washer

bottle-washer

noun
  1. informal a menial or factotum

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