| 释义 |
bottle-o(h Austral. and N.Z. colloq.|ˈbɒt(ə)ləʊ|
Also bottle-o-er.
[f. bottle n.2 + O int.]
A collector of empty bottles.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xvi. 217 Half-a-dozen of them would have died for the bibulous comp. despite the bottle-o's stock garnered in the trouser fringe. 1914Bulletin (Sydney) 14 May 36/2 Bottle-o Bill and his tart Could join in the catchy refrain. 1915E. N. G. Poulton in Countess of Liverpool's Gift Bk. 95 He was the great panjandrum of his ‘profession’, the King of Bottle-O-ers. 1943Coast to Coast 1942 105 A bottle-o followed him crying cheerily, ‘Bottles, bottles, any empty bottles.’ 1954Ibid. 1953–4 161 They must pay for what they took; no thieving like other bottle-ohs. 1967D. Whittington In Search of Australian 90 ‘What do you do for a living?’..‘I'm the local bottle-O’. |