washer-upper

plural washer-uppers

1. humorousOne who does the washing up.

   As my new mother-in-law said, she is not losing a daughter but gaining a washer-upper.

   2001, Katey Day, Speeches: What to Say at Weddings and When to Say It

   2 more examples

   […] the young man or woman who serves us in the fast food outlet, the washer-upper, the supervisor and the manager.

   1988, Yiannis Gabriel, Working Lives in Catering

   […] not just as a tool extends human effort but as innovations substitute for old travails (the dishwasher purportedly releasing the washer-upper […]

   2005, Marilyn Strathern, Kinship, Law and the Unexpected