- a variation of bottlewasher.
bottle-washer
Britishnoun
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He is also, on this occasion, the director, online cook and offline bottle-washer.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
I am a-thinking you will be chief cook and bottle-washer at that sarching, for the appintment is at hand.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
"I'm the Vicar's bottle-washer, you know," added the curate, with a guffaw.
From The Hero by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
When still a mere child, he had gone to work in a brewery as bottle-washer, and later as a lower servant in a house.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
The royal nurse said to herself, and privately told his little royal highness's chief bottle-washer that she "never see a infant as took notice so, and sneezed as intelligent."
From Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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