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bottlewasher

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Etymology

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From bottle +‎ washer.

Noun

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bottlewasher (plural bottlewashers)

  1. A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles.
    Coordinate term: dishwasher
  2. A general factotum.
    • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page 47:
      The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.

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