bottle-washer

British  

noun

1. informal a menial or factotum

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Example Sentences

He is also, on this occasion, the director, online cook and offline bottle-washer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Perhaps there was something of this nature in Old Baboon that impelled him to look again and again over his shoulder—as he clutched tighter to the tow-string—at the cinnamon-headed bottle-washer behind the bar.

From First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Miller, Joaquin

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 Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

At the same meeting it was brought out that a Negro by the name of Phillip J. Allston was chemist for the Potter Chemical Company, having risen from bottle-washer to that responsible post.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)

He's simply a sort of bottle-washer to the firm.

From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)