bottlewasher

or bot·tle-wash·er

[ bot-l-wosh-er, -waw-sher ]
/ ˈbɒt lˌwɒʃ ər, -ˌwɔ ʃər /

noun

a person or machine that washes bottles.

Idioms for bottlewasher

    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.

Origin of bottlewasher

First recorded in 1860–65; bottle1 + washer

Words nearby bottlewasher

bottlehead, bottleneck, bottlenose, bottlenose dolphin, bottler, bottlewasher, bottom, bottom bolt, bottom break, bottom dead centre, bottom dog

Idioms and Phrases with chief cook and bottlewasher

chief cook and bottlewasher

A person in charge of numerous duties, both vital and trivial, as in We have no secretaries or clerks; the department head is chief cook and bottlewasher and does it all. [Slang; c. 1840]