Bottle-o

Pronunciation

• Australia IPA: /ˈbÉ”dl̩əʉ/
• UK IPA: /ˈbÉ’tÉ™ləʊ/

Alternative forms

• bottlo
• bottle-oh

Origin

From bottle + -o("diminutive suffix").

Full definition of bottle-o

Noun

1. (Australia, informal, obsolete) A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
• a. 1922 Henry Lawson, 1984, Leonard Cronin (editor), A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922, Part 2, %22bottle-os%22+-intitle:%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22bottle-o%22|%22bottle-os%22+-intitle:%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WgkDT7DGIuPYmAWQt8XUBg&redir_esc=y 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.
• 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 103:the bottle-oh with the cleft tongue rode his wagon wrapped tight in an old grey blanket and had his battle-oh cries blown westwards before the icy gusts of wind.
• 2010, Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream: Based on the Autobiography of Barry Mcginley Jones, %22bottle-os%22+-intitle:%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7PkCT72WKIbfmAWT-7yvAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bottle-o%22|%22bottle-os%22%20-intitle%3A%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 74,Another character was the bottle-o man. He would come around on weekends down the lane standing on a dray driven by an old horse while he cried out: “booooddle-o, any old rags and boddles? Booooddle-o”.
• 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur, %22bottle-os%22+-intitle:%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VAMDT6fiIqfNmQWcvr2BAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bottle-o%22|%22bottle-os%22%20-intitle%3A%22bottle-o|bottle-os%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,When Kate was a girl living in Albert Park, a lifetime before she met Rex, her bottle-o had some sort of motor truck. Some of us can remember the horse and cart used by the bottle-o, the milk-o, the ice-man, and especially the woodman.
2. (Australia, NZ, informal) A bottle shop.