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chief cook and bottlewasher
chief cook and bottlewasher
A person in charge of numerous duties, both vital and trivial, as in We have no secretaries or clerks; the department head is chief cook and bottlewasher and does it all . [Slang; c. 1840]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Juvenal | | JOO-və-nahl (English) | History |
| Borislava | | bah-ree-SLAH-vah (Russian) | Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian |
| Na'amah | | - | Biblical Hebrew |
| Siofra | | SHEEF-rə | Irish |
| Almond | | ['a:mənd] | |
| Nichol | | - | Scottish, Medieval English |