bottlewasher

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Etymology[edit]

bottle +‎ washer

Noun[edit]

bottlewasher (plural bottlewashers)

  1. A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles.
  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.

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