bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.l̩/
enpr: bŏtʹəl
ipa: /ˈbɑ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɔʔʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɔʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: bottles
Etymology: From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native and pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Broadly overtook Old English flasce.
Senses: examples: text: Beer is often sold in bottles.
text: He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he’d never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
examples: text: I only drank a bottle of beer.
glosses: The contents of such a container.
examples: text: The baby wants a bottle.
text: With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
ref: 2004 May 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
examples: text: You don’t have the bottle to do that!
text: He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
glosses: (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
examples: text: Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
glosses: A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
raw_tags: of a person with a particular hair color
examples: text: to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
text: to hit the bottle
text: See that black boy over there runnin' scared / His ol' man's in a bottle / He done quit his 9 to 5 to drink full time / So now he's livin' in the bottle.
ref: 1974, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Bottle”, in Winter in America:
text: See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is
ref: 1988 April 5, Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”, in Tracy Chapman:
glosses: Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
Synonyms: sense: for feeding babies
word: baby's bottle
sense: for feeding babies
word: feeding bottle
sense: for feeding babies
word: nursing bottle
sense: courage
word: balls
sense: courage
word: courage
sense: courage
word: guts
sense: courage
word: nerve
sense: courage
word: pluck
Derived terms: baby bottle
baby's bottle
bawdy-house bottle
beer bottle
blown-in-the-bottle
blue bottle
bluebottle
blue bottle experiment
Bologna bottle
Boston round bottle
bottle and glass
bottle-arse
bottle bank
bottle-blond
bottle blonde
bottle blond
bottlebrush
bottle brush
bottle cage
bottlecap
bottle cap
bottle chart
bottle club
bottle collar
bottle crate
bottle dance
bottle deposit
bottle drive
bottle episode
bottle-fed
bottle-feed
bottle feeder
bottlefeeder
bottle-feeder
bottle fight
bottlefish
bottle flipping
bottlefly
bottleful
Bottlegate
bottle gentian
bottle girl
bottle glorifier
bottle gourd
bottle grass
bottle green
bottle hanger
bottlehead
bottleholder
bottle imp
bottle jack
bottle jaw
bottle job
bottle kiln
bottlelike
bottlemaker
bottlemaking
bottle man
bottleneck
bottlenose
bottle-nose
bottle-nosed
bottlenosed
bottle-nosed dolphin
bottle-nose dolphin
bottle-o
bottle-oh
bottle opener
bottle-opener
bottle oven
bottle palm
bottle party
bottler
bottle rat
bottle rocket
bottlescrew
bottle sedge
bottle service
bottle share
bottle-shock
bottle shop
bottle show
bottle-sickness
bottle sling
bottle stopper
bottle store
bottle-sucker
bottlesworth
bottle-tight
bottletop
bottle top
bottle trap
bottletree
bottle tree
bottle warmer
bottlewasher
bottle-washer
bottle whore
bottlo
brandy bottle
brown bottle flu
chief cook and bottle-washer
chief cook and bottle washer
Codd bottle
Codd-neck bottle
cokebottle
coke bottle
coke-bottle
crazy man in the bottle
embottle
fair shake of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle
feeding bottle
first olive out of the bottle
gas bottle
genie is out of the bottle
gin bottle
greenbottle
green-bottle fly
green bottle fly
head cook and bottle washer
head cook and bottle-washer
hit the bottle
hot bottle
hot water bottle
hot water bottle rash
impossible bottle
ink bottle
junk bottle
killing bottle
Klein bottle
knapbottle
lecture bottle
lightning in a bottle
lose one's bottle
magnetic bottle
Mariotte bottle
Mariotte's bottle
McCartney bottle
message in a bottle
microbottle
milk bottle
multibottle
Nansen bottle
new wine in an old bottle
New Year's bottle
Niskin bottle
nursing bottle
old wine in a new bottle
onion bottle
oxygen bottle
pass the bottle of smoke
pee bottle
phosphorous bottle
phosphorus bottle
pilgrim bottle
pill bottle
piss bottle
pony bottle
prescription bottle
put the cork back in the bottle
put the genie back in the bottle
quarter bottle
roller bottle
scent-bottle
sea-bottle
seltzer bottle
ship in a bottle
siphon bottle
smelling bottle
snuff bottle
specific gravity bottle
spin the bottle
split wine bottle
spottle
spray bottle
sticky bottle
sucking bottle
the genie is out of the bottle
the genie's out of the bottle
thermos bottle
three-bottle man
tooth-bottle
train bottle
unbottle
urine bottle
vacuum bottle
wash bottle
washing bottle
water bottle
water bottle flipping
weighing bottle
wine bottle
wine-bottle
Winkler bottle
witch bottle
Woulfe bottle
Woulfe's bottle
Related terms: word: butler
english: large cask
translation: large cask
word: butt
word: 🍼
word: flagon
word: flask
word: jar