bottlewasher
nounEtymology From bottle + washer.
1
A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles.
2
A general factotum.
- The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page 47:
3
Government, Military, Politics, War Slang An engineer.
- Derived terms
- chief cook and bottle washer, head cook and bottle washer