bottle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
media
printing
publishing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw-der.
Ancient Greekbor.?
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
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.
Inflected forms:
form: bottles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boddle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: bottles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bottling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bottled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bottled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: boddle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
pos: noun
examples: Beer is often sold in bottles.
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.
gloss: The contents of such a container.
pos: noun
examples: I only drank a bottle of beer.
gloss: A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
pos: noun
examples: The baby wants a bottle.
With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
gloss: (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: You don’t have the bottle to do that!
He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
He told me I didn’t have the bottle to take them, so I told him I did and he handed them to me one by one and I swallowed them.
gloss: A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
gloss: Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
to hit the bottle
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.
See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is
gloss: To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
gloss: To feed (an infant) baby formula.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
gloss: To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: The rider bottled the big jump.
gloss: To throw away a leading position.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
gloss: To strike (someone) with a bottle.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
gloss: To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
gloss: Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Closely related to creep is the process of bottling. As you may have noticed from your folded sheet of paper, pages don't merely creep when they're folded — they also rotate slightly. This rotation or bottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.
Synonyms: baby's bottle
feeding bottle
nursing bottle
Antonyms: cowardice
Related words: butler
butt
🍼
flagon
flask
jar
Derived words: baby bottle
baby's bottle
bawdy-house bottle
beer bottle
blown-in-the-bottle
bluebottle
blue bottle
blue bottle experiment
Bologna bottle
Boston round bottle
bottle and glass
bottle-arse
bottle bank
bottle-blond
bottle blonde
bottle blond
bottle brush
bottlebrush
bottle cage
bottle cap
bottlecap
bottle chart
bottle club
bottle collar
bottle crate
Bottle Creek
bottle dance
bottle deposit
bottle drive
bottle episode
bottle-fed
bottle-feed
bottlefeeder
bottle-feeder
bottle feeder
bottle fight
bottlefish
bottle flipping
bottle-flipping
bottlefly
bottleful
Bottlegate
bottle gentian
bottle girl
bottle glorifier
bottle gourd
bottle grass
bottle green
bottle hanger
bottlehead
bottleholder
bottle-horse
bottle house
bottle imp
bottle jack
bottle jaw
bottle job
bottle kiln
bottleless
bottlelike
bottlemaker
bottlemaking
bottle man
bottleneck
bottlenose
bottle-nose
bottlenosed
bottle-nosed
bottle-nosed dolphin
bottle-nose dolphin
bottle-o
bottle of wine
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
bottletit
bottle-tom
bottle top
bottletop
bottle trap
bottletree
bottle tree
bottle warmer
bottle-washer
bottlewasher
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
fly bottle
gas bottle
genie is out of the bottle
gin bottle
glass 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
bottleable
bottle away
bottle down
bottle it
bottle off
bottle out
bottle up
bottling
rebottle
your blood's worth bottling
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bottel
lang: Ainu
word: トㇰクリ
roman: tokkuri
lang: Albanian
word: shishe
lang: Southern Altai
word: шише
roman: šiše
lang: Southern Altai
word: бутылка
roman: butïlka
lang: Southern Altai
word: бутулка
roman: butulka
lang: Amharic
word: ጠርሙዝ
roman: ṭärmuz
lang: Arabic
word: زُجَاجَة
roman: zujāja
lang: Arabic
word: قِنِّينَة
roman: qinnīna
lang: Arabic
word: قزازة
roman: ʔezāza
lang: Arabic
word: بطل
roman: buṭuḷ
lang: Arabic
word: قارورة
roman: gārūra
lang: Arabic
word: قُزازة
roman: guzāza
lang: Arabic
word: قرعة
roman: qarʕa
lang: Arabic
word: قنّينة
roman: ʔannīne, ʔannīni, qannīni
lang: Arabic
word: قنّينة
roman: ʔannīne
lang: Arabic
word: قنية
roman: qiniyya
lang: Arabic
word: قزازة
roman: qzāza
lang: Aragonese
word: botella
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܩܲܢܝܼܢܬܵܐ
roman: qanīntā
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܒܘܿܛܘܼܠܵܐ
roman: bōṭūlā
lang: Archi
word: шуша
roman: šuša
lang: Armenian
word: շիշ
roman: šiš
lang: Aromanian
word: shíshe
lang: Assamese
word: বটল
roman: botol
lang: Asturian
word: botella
lang: Aukan
word: bataa
lang: Avar
word: шиша
roman: šiša
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şüşə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: butulka
lang: Bangi
word: molangi
lang: Bashkir
word: шешә
roman: şeşə
lang: Basque
word: botila
lang: Belarusian
word: бутэ́лька
roman: butélʹka
lang: Bengali
word: বোতল
roman: bōtol
lang: Breton
word: boutailh
lang: Bulgarian
word: бути́лка
roman: butílka
lang: Bulgarian
word: шише́
roman: šišé
lang: Burmese
word: ပုလင်း
roman: pu.lang:
lang: Catalan
word: ampolla
lang: Catalan
word: botella
lang: Catalan
word: bòtil
lang: Chichewa
word: botolo
lang: Chickasaw
word: kitoba
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 樽
roman: zeon¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 瓶
roman: peng⁴
lang: Chinese
word: пинзы
roman: pinzɨ
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 瓶瓶
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 盎仔
roman: âng-é
lang: Chinese
word: 矸仔
roman: kan-á
lang: Jin Chinese
word: 瓶子
roman: ping¹ zeh
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瓶子
roman: píngzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瓶
roman: píng
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 瓶
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 瓶子
roman: ⁶bin-tsy
lang: Chinook Jargon
word: laputay
lang: Chukchi
word: тэнмэмлыёчгын
roman: tėnmėmlyjočgyn
lang: Coptic
word: ⲃⲁⲗⲕⲟⲩ
roman: balkou
lang: Corsican
word: buttiglia
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: şişe
lang: Czech
word: láhev
lang: Czech
word: flaška
lang: Dalmatian
word: bosaun
lang: Dalmatian
word: botaila
lang: Danish
word: flaske
lang: Dutch
word: fles
lang: Dzongkha
word: དམ་སྦྱིས
roman: dam sbyis
lang: Elfdalian
word: putell
lang: Elfdalian
word: flaska
lang: Esperanto
word: botelo
lang: Estonian
word: pudel
lang: Ewe
word: atukpa
lang: Faroese
word: fløska
lang: Finnish
word: pullo
lang: French
word: bouteille
lang: Galician
word: botella
lang: Galician
word: garrafa
lang: Galician
word: frasco
lang: Galician
word: limeta
lang: Galician
word: libeta
lang: Georgian
word: ბოთლი
roman: botli
lang: German
word: Flasche
lang: German
word: Bouteille
lang: German
word: Butëlle
lang: German
word: Guttere
lang: Greek
word: μπουκάλι
roman: boukáli
lang: Greek
word: φιάλη
roman: fiáli
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λάγυνος
roman: lágunos
lang: Greenlandic
word: puiaasaq
lang: Gujarati
word: બાટલી
roman: bāṭlī
lang: Haitian Creole
word: boutèy
lang: Hawaiian
word: hue
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻōmole
lang: Hebrew
word: בַּקְבּוּק
roman: bakbúk
lang: Hindi
word: शीशी
roman: śīśī
lang: Hindi
word: बोतल
roman: botal
lang: Hindi
word: शीशा
roman: śīśā
lang: Hungarian
word: üveg
lang: Hungarian
word: palack
lang: Iban
word: jebul
lang: Iban
word: pucung
lang: Icelandic
word: flaska
lang: Ido
word: botelo
lang: Igbo
word: aba
lang: Igbo
word: karama
lang: Indonesian
word: botol
lang: Ingrian
word: puteli
lang: Ingrian
word: nopo
lang: Interlingua
word: bottilia
lang: Inuktitut
word: imertarfik
lang: Irish
word: buidéal
lang: Isoko
word: ololo
lang: Isoko
word: ọgọ
lang: Italian
word: bottiglia
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: bokl
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: bakl
lang: Japanese
word: 瓶
roman: bin
lang: Javanese
word: gendul
lang: Jeju
word: 펭
roman: peng
lang: Jingpho
word: paleng
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: garáfa
lang: Kannada
word: ಬಾಟಲಿ
roman: bāṭali
lang: Kazakh
word: бөтелке
roman: bötelke
lang: Kazakh
word: шөлмек
roman: şölmek
lang: Kazakh
word: шиша
roman: şişa
lang: Ket
word: postup
lang: Khmer
word: ដប
roman: dɑɑp
lang: Kongo
word: mulangi
lang: Korean
word: 병
roman: byeong
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şûşe
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: betl
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: botl
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бөтөлкө
roman: bötölkö
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бутылка
roman: butılka
lang: Kyrgyz
word: шише
roman: şişe
lang: Lao
word: ຂວດ
roman: khūat
lang: Lao
word: ແກ້ວ
roman: kǣu
lang: Latin
word: ampulla
lang: Latin
word: lagēna
lang: Latvian
word: pudele
lang: Lezgi
word: шуьше
roman: šüše
lang: Lingala
word: molangi
lang: Lithuanian
word: butelis
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Fläsch
lang: Macedonian
word: шише
roman: šiše
lang: Macedonian
word: флаша
roman: flaša
lang: Makah
word: lapu·ta·y
lang: Malay
word: botol
lang: Malay
word: jebul (Kelantan-Pattani)
lang: Brunei Malay
word: butul
lang: Malayalam
word: കുപ്പി
roman: kuppi
lang: Maltese
word: flixkun
lang: Manx
word: boteil
lang: Manx
word: costrayl
lang: Māori
word: tahā
lang: Māori
word: pounamu
lang: Māori
word: pātara
lang: Marathi
word: बाटली
roman: bāṭalī
lang: Middle English
word: botel
lang: Mirandese
word: frasco
lang: Mirandese
word: garrafa
lang: Mirandese
word: baso
lang: Moksha
word: сюлека
roman: śuleka
lang: Mongolian
word: шил
roman: šil
lang: Mongolian
word: лонх
roman: lonx
lang: Moore
word: bugtelle
lang: Moore
word: butelle
lang: Moore
word: kolbre
lang: Nahuatl
word: tecontli
lang: Nepali
word: बोतल
roman: botal
lang: Norman
word: boutelle
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: flaske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: flaske
lang: Nyah Kur
word: ควด
lang: Occitan
word: botelha
lang: Odia
word: ବୋତଲ
roman: botala
lang: Ojibwe
word: omooday
lang: Church Slavic
word: лагꙑ
roman: lagy
lang: Old English
word: flasce
lang: Old English
word: pinne
lang: Old English
word: ampelle
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: фляша
roman: fljaša
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: склєнка
roman: skljenka
lang: Papiamentu
word: bòter
lang: Pashto
word: بوتل
roman: botal
lang: Pashto
word: شيشه
roman: šiša
lang: Pennsylvania German
word: Boddel
lang: Dari
word: بوتَل
roman: bōtal
lang: Dari
word: شِیشَه
roman: šīša
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بُطْری
roman: botri
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شیشِه
roman: šiše
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Buddel (nds)
lang: Polish
word: butelka
lang: Polish
word: flaszka
lang: Portuguese
word: garrafa
lang: Portuguese
word: botelha
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬੋਤਲ
roman: botal
lang: Punjabi
word: بوتَل
roman: botal
lang: Romanian
word: sticlă
lang: Romanian
word: butelie
lang: Romansh
word: buttiglia
lang: Russian
word: буты́лка
roman: butýlka
lang: Russian
word: фля́жка
roman: fljážka
lang: Rwanda-Rundi
word: icupa
lang: Rwanda-Rundi
word: cupa
lang: Northern Sami
word: bohtal
lang: Northern Sami
word: boahtal
lang: Samoan
word: fagu
lang: Sanskrit
word: कूपी
roman: kūpī
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: botal
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бо̏ца
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: фла̏ша
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бутељка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȍca
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: flȁša
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: buteljka
lang: Shan
word: ပလႅင်း
roman: pǎ léng
lang: Sicilian
word: buttigghia
lang: Sinhalese
word: බෝතලය
roman: bōtalaya
lang: Slovak
word: fľaša
lang: Slovene
word: steklenica
lang: Slovene
word: buteljka
lang: Somali
word: qarsho
lang: Somali
word: qarshad
lang: Somali
word: quraarad
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: bleša
lang: Sotho
word: botlolo
lang: Spanish
word: botella
lang: Spanish
word: frasco
lang: Spanish
word: bótil
lang: Spanish
word: bórol
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: batra
lang: Swahili
word: chupa
lang: Swedish
word: flaska
lang: Swedish
word: pava
lang: Tagalog
word: bote
lang: Tajik
word: шиша
roman: šiša
lang: Tajik
word: суроҳӣ
roman: surohi
lang: Tajik
word: зарф
roman: zarf
lang: Tamil
word: புட்டி
roman: puṭṭi
lang: Taos
word: butéyoną
lang: Tatar
word: шешә
roman: şeşä
lang: Tatar
word: шиша
roman: şişa
lang: Telugu
word: సీసా
roman: sīsā
lang: Tetum
word: botir
lang: Thai
word: ขวด
roman: kùuat
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨡ᩠ᩅᨯ
roman: khuad
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨢ᩠ᩅᨯ
roman: xuad
lang: Tibetan
word: ཤེལ་དམ
roman: shel dam
lang: Tigrinya
word: ጥርሙዝ
roman: ṭərmuz
lang: Tongan
word: fangu
lang: Tumbuka
word: botolo
lang: Turkish
word: şişe
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شیشه
roman: şişe
lang: Turkmen
word: çüýşe
lang: Ukrainian
word: пля́шка
roman: pljáška
lang: Ukrainian
word: буте́лька
roman: butélʹka
lang: Urdu
word: بوتَل
roman: botal
lang: Urdu
word: شِیشَہ
roman: śīśa
lang: Urhobo
word: ọgọ́
lang: Uyghur
word: بوتۇلكا
roman: botulka
lang: Uyghur
word: شېشە
roman: shëshe
lang: Uzbek
word: shisha
lang: Uzbek
word: butilka
lang: Venetan
word: bosa
lang: Vietnamese
word: chai
lang: Walloon
word: botaye
lang: Welsh
word: potel
lang: Welsh
word: costrel
lang: Xhosa
word: ibhotile
lang: Xhosa
word: imbodlela
lang: Yakut
word: бытыылка
roman: bïtïïlka
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿלאַש
roman: flash
lang: Yoruba
word: ìgò
lang: Yup'ik
word: putiil'kaaq
lang: Zhuang
word: bingz
lang: Zulu
word: bhodlela
lang: Finnish
word: lyhde
lang: Russian
word: сноп
roman: snop
lang: Russian
word: оха́пка