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bottle-washer

noun

  1. informal.
    a menial or factotum


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A few moments later I had completed my task as general bottle-washer, and I cast about for something to occupy me.

He got a job as "a sort of bottle-washer at six dollars a week," he says, in a chemical shop in New York.

Kitchen, chief-cook and bottle-washer in the establishment of Mrs. Franke, out on the "Cerro."

Jane Mucklow cooked for the wounded; Susan Yellam was installed as bottle-washer in chief.

However, when I set up housekeeping, Romoldo was promoted to the office of chief cook and only bottle washer.

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