bottle
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒ.təl/
- (Received Pronunciation)
Audio "a bottle" [əˈbɔtɫ̩] (file) - (Cockney)
Audio [ˈbɒʔo] (file)
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (General American, Canada) enPR: bŏtʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈbɑ.təl/
- Rhymes: -ɒtəl
- Hyphenation: bot‧tle
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille (Modern French bouteille), from Medieval Latin butticula, ultimately of disputed origin. Probably a diminutive of Late Latin buttis. Compare also Low German Buddel and Old High German būtil (whence German Beutel). Doublet of botija.
NounEdit
bottle (plural bottles)
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- Beer is often sold in bottles.
- The contents of such a container.
- I only drank a bottle of beer.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The baby wants a bottle.
- (Britain, informal) (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- 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.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
- (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
- End of the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale
- Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.
- 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC; republished as Hermann Breymann, editor, Doctor Faustus (Englische Sprach- und Literaturdenkmale des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts; 5; Marlowes Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe […]; II), Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg: Verlag von Gebr[üder] Henninger, 1889, →OCLC, scene XI, pages 144 and 146:
- I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanisht away, and I sat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer so neare drowning in my life: […]
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Don Pedro. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. / Benedick. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
- 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkydom and The Cause, like a donkey between two bottles of hay?
- End of the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale
- (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
- to hit the bottle
- 1988 April 5, Tracy Chapman (lyrics and music), “Fast Car”, in Tracy Chapman:
- See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is
SynonymsEdit
- (for feeding babies): baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US)
- (courage): balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
AntonymsEdit
- (courage): cowardice
Derived termsEdit
- baby bottle, baby's bottle
- bawdy-house bottle
- beer bottle
- blue bottle
- blue bottle experiment
- bluebottle
- Bologna bottle
- Boston round bottle
- bottle bank
- bottle blonde, bottle blond
- bottle brush
- bottle cage
- bottle cap
- bottle chart
- bottle club
- bottle collar
- bottle crate
- bottle dance
- bottle deposit
- bottle drive
- bottle episode
- bottle feeder
- bottle fight
- bottle flipping
- bottle gentian
- bottle glorifier
- bottle gourd
- bottle grass
- bottle green
- bottle hanger
- bottle imp
- bottle jack
- bottle jaw
- bottle job
- bottle kiln
- bottle man
- bottle opener, bottle-opener
- bottle oven
- bottle party
- bottle rat
- bottle rocket
- bottle sedge
- bottle service
- bottle shop
- bottle show
- bottle sling
- bottle stopper
- bottle store
- bottle top
- bottle trap
- bottle tree
- bottle warmer
- bottle whore
- bottle-arse
- bottle-blond
- bottle-fed
- bottle-feed
- bottle-feeder
- bottle-nose
- bottle-nose dolphin
- bottle-nosed dolphin
- bottle-o
- bottle-oh
- bottle-shock
- bottle-sickness
- bottle-tight
- bottle-washer
- bottlebrush
- bottlefish
- bottlefly
- bottleful
- Bottlegate
- bottlehead
- bottleholder
- bottlelike
- bottleneck
- bottlenose
- bottlescrew
- bottlesworth
- bottletop
- brandy bottle
- brown bottle flu
- chief cook and bottle washer
- chief cook and bottle-washer
- 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
- green bottle fly
- greenbottle
- 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
- Klein bottle
- knapbottle
- lecture bottle
- lightning in a bottle
- lose one's bottle
- magnetic bottle
- McCartney bottle
- message in a bottle
- milk bottle
- Nansen bottle
- new wine in an old 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
- seltzer bottle
- ship in a bottle
- siphon bottle
- smelling bottle
- snuff bottle
- spin the bottle
- split wine bottle
- spray bottle
- sticky bottle
- sucking bottle
- the genie's out of the bottle
- thermos bottle
- three-bottle man
- tooth-bottle
- train bottle
- 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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Borrowings
- → Assamese: বটল (botol) (or from Portuguese botelha)
- → Bengali: বোতল (bōtol)
- → Cornish: botel
- → Brunei Malay: butul
- → Dutch: bottel (see there for further descendants)
- → Ese: butorua
- → Fiji Hindi: botal
- → Gamilaraay: baadhal
- → Georgian: ბოთლი (botli)
- → Gujarati: બાટલી (bāṭlī)
- → Hindi: बोतल (botal) (or from Portuguese botelha)
- → Dari: بوتل (bôtal)
- → Kannada: ಬಾಟಲಿ (bāṭali)
- → Malay: botol
- → Papiamentu: bòter
- → Maori: pātara
- → Marathi: बाटली (bāṭlī)
- → Nepali: बोतल (botal)
- → Pashto: بوتل (botál)
- → Pennsylvania German: Boddel
- → Persian: بطری (botri)
- → Punjabi: ਬੋਤਲ (botal)
- → Samo: botolo
- → Scottish Gaelic: botal
- → Shona: bhotoro
- → Sinhalese: බෝතලය (bōtalaya)
- → Swahili: libhodlela
- → Welsh: potel
- → Xhosa: ibhotile, imbodlela
- → Yiddish: באָטל (botl)
- → Zulu: bhodlela
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VerbEdit
bottle (third-person singular simple present bottles, present participle bottling, simple past and past participle bottled)
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1]:
- 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.
- (transitive, Britain) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- (Britain, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- (Britain, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
- Liverpool bottled the Premier League.
- (Britain, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- (Britain, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
- (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- 2002, Against the Clock, QuarkXPress 5: Advanced Electronic Documents (page 58)
- 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.
- 2002, Against the Clock, QuarkXPress 5: Advanced Electronic Documents (page 58)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- “bottle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. (premium)
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at build.
NounEdit
bottle (plural bottles)