bottlewasher

English

Alternative forms

• bottle washer

Etymology

bottle +‎ washer

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• chief cook and bottle washer
• head cook and bottle washer