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bottlewasher en · NOUN

Etymology

From bottle + washer.

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bottle washer alternative lexicographic
bottlewashers Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

dishwasher

Deriveds

chief cook and bottle washer · head cook and bottle washer