bottlewasher

bottlewasher
/bot"l wosh'euhr, -waw'sheuhr/, n.
1. a person or machine that washes bottles.
2. chief cook and bottlewasher, a person who does a wide variety of routine, sometimes menial, tasks: He's not just sales manager, he's the chief cook and bottlewasher in this firm.
Also, bottle-washer.
[1860-65; BOTTLE1 + WASHER]

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