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bottle-oh

bottle-oh is the alternative form of bottle-o.

Meaning of bottle-o

Noun

bottle-o (plural bottle-os)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A bottle shop.
  2. (Australia, informal, obsolete) 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.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14

Forms of bottle-oh

pluralbottle-ohs

Origin of bottle-oh

From bottle + -oh.

Questions about bottle-oh

What is bottle-oh the alternative form of?
Bottle-oh is the alternative form of bottle-o.

Words near bottle-oh in the dictionary

  1. bottle-nosed
  2. bottle-nosed dolphin
  3. bottle-nosed dolphins
  4. bottle-noses
  5. bottle-o
  6. bottle-oh
  7. bottle-ohs
  8. bottle-opener
  9. bottle-openers
  10. bottle-os
  11. bottle-shock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottle-oh (page history and authors); bottle-o (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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