bottler

The word 'bottler' is a transparent compound formed within English. Its base, 'bottle', traces back to Late Latin buttis, meaning a cask or vessel, which entered English via Old French. The agent suffix '-er', of Germanic origin, is one of the most productive in English for creating nouns that denote an agent. Literally, a 'bottler' is one who bottles. The informal British sense, implying a failure under pressure, is a 20th-century development originating in Australian slang, where "to bottle" meant to lose one's courage, possibly from the phrase "to lose one's bottle" (rhyming slang for "bottle and glass" meaning "arse," i.e., to lose one's nerve).

Structure: bottle (container) + er (agent suffix) - bottle: From Old French boteille, from Medieval Latin butticula, a diminutive of Late Latin buttis (cask). Functions as the base noun. - er: A Germanic agent-noun suffix (Old English -ere), used to form nouns denoting a person or thing that performs an action. Functions as a derivational suffix.