# bottler
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈbɑtəlɚ/, /ˈbɑtl̩ɚ/, [ˈbɑɾl̩ɚ]
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle +‎ -er. Piecewise doublet of butler.

#### Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)
* A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
** 1899, John Calder, The Prevention of Factory Accidents‎, page 307:They shall provide all bottlers with face guards, […] .
** 1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63,
    Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola′s sales and marketing groups.
    “When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonald’s is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes.
** 2010, James M. Wahlen, Clyde P. Stickney, Paul Brown, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective, 7th edition, page 278:Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers.
** 2023 April 19, Paul Clifton, “Rail is clearly key to our future”, in RAIL, number 981, page 32:Maritime Transport runs a train from the bottler of Cola-Cola in Tilbury, six days a week. It started in 2022, and the bottler says it will save four million road miles a year and 15,000 lorry journeys, moving 2.5 million cans and bottles on the train each day.
* A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
* (British, slang) A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure.
* A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.

##### Synonyms

* (person or group prone to unexpected failure): choker

##### Derived terms

* water bottler

##### Related terms

* butler

### Etymology 2

* Perhaps from the idea of something being of a high quality and worthy of preservation by bottling, probably from the phrase "good enough to bottle"; compare corker.
* Perhaps a modification of battler, Australian slang of similar meaning.

#### Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "real") a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
** 1970, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates‎, page 455:In Kiwi language anyway, the Minister of Industries and Commerce will go down in history as a real bottler in every sense of the word.
** 2007, Anthony David Parsons, Tony Parsons, Valley of the White Gold‎:Mum's a real bottler and you′ll find her very sympathetic.
** 2010, Drew Hunt, Colin and Martin′s London Christmas‎, page 7:“You′re a real bottler, mate. That sheila has been trying to get into my pants ever since Sydney. Didn't know how I′d get rid of her.”

### References

* “bottler”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
* “bottler”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* "bottler" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

### Anagrams

* Roblett, Tolbert, blotter