How do you pronounce bottle-o?

The recorded pronunciation is [ˈbɔɾl̩əʉ].

bottle-o

[ˈbɔɾl̩əʉ]

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

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noun

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Informal

noun

Australian usage; Informal; Obsolete

"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."
"And Pa, that bottle-o, drunk once on misery."
"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."
"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”."
"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."

Etymology tree Latin buttis Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Late Latin butticula Old French boteillebor. Middle English botel English bottle Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O English oh English -o English bottle-o From bottle + -o (diminutive suffix).