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bottle-o
UK /ˈbɒtələʊ/ US /ˈbɔdl̩əʉ/
noun 2
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4ADJ.
drunk
BOTTLE-O + NOUN
drew
PREP.
on
ADV.
once
Definitions
noun
1
A bottle shop.
2
A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
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.
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For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
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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 int
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And Pa, that bottle-o, drunk once on misery.
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