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bottle-washer
noun
- 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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