noun
Meaning 1
A bottle shop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, informal
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Standard Lemma guide
bottle-o
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Pronunciation
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/ˈbɒtələʊ/
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Australian: [ˈbɔɾl̩əʉ]
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noun
Meaning 2
A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, informal, obsolete
Examples
- 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.
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin buttis Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Late Latin butticula Old French boteillebor. Middle English botel English bottle English -o English bottle-o From bottle + -o (diminutive suffix).