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
Haskins is away, and I doubt if Westover could come, for he's Officer of the Day, also bottle-washer.
From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson
He got a job as "a sort of bottle-washer at six dollars a week," he says, in a chemical shop in New York.
From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton
A few moments later I had completed my task as general bottle-washer, and I cast about for something to occupy me.
From In Search of the Unknown by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Well, Ty's chief cook and bottle-washer to-night; and you know enough about him to understand what that means.
From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan
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