bottle-o

Definition

A bottle shop.

Etymology

From bottle + -o (diminutive suffix).

Example Sentences

• "For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen."
• "a. 1922, Henry Lawson, 1984, Leonard Cronin (editor), A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922, Part 2, page 546, Time was when my old friend, Benno the bottle-o, drew his turn-out into the shade of the big old fig-trees under the church at the top of the hill, and went back and thrashed the most notoriously brutal driver well and good."
• "And Pa, that bottle-o, drunk once on misery."