- a variation of bottlewasher.
bottle-washer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He is also, on this occasion, the director, online cook and offline bottle-washer.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
Dotty called it the G. A. A. crown and fastened one around Betty’s locks, saying that she was chief cook and bottle-washer and must have one whether she really cooked or not.
From Betty Lee, Sophomore by Harriet Pyne Grove
I shall expect you to be chief cook, but not bottle-washer.
From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed
Again, there was a certain vain native apothecary, and he had the idea that I was bottle-washer to the “Capella’s” surgeon, much to that fellow’s secret delight.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
"I'm the Vicar's bottle-washer, you know," added the curate, with a guffaw.
From The Hero by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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