bottlewasher

or bot·tle-wash·er

[ bot-l-wosh-er, -waw-sher ]

noun

1. a person or machine that washes bottles. bottle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bottlewasher¹

First recorded in 1860–65; bottle ¹ + washer

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. 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.

Example Sentences

N. Y., restaurateur named Harold H. Clapp found himself reduced to the unmanly position of nurse, cook & bottlewasher for his two infant sons while their mother lay ill in the hospital.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the box were "traps" innumerable in charge of Bert, who was "chief cook and bottlewasher."

From Project Gutenberg

We only keep one undersized girl," he explained more directly to Annie, "and Ellen has to be chief cook and bottlewasher herself.

From Project Gutenberg

Delahunt of Camden street had the catering and yours truly was chief bottlewasher.

From Project Gutenberg