bottle

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒt.l̩/ (General American, Canada) enPR: bŏtʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈbɑ.tl̩/ (MLE) IPA(key): /ˈbɔʔʊ/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈbɔʈɪl/, /-əl/ Rhymes: -ɒtəl Hyphenation: bot‧tle === Etymology 1 === 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. Broadly overtook Old English flasce. ==== Noun ==== bottle (plural bottles) A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. The contents of such a container. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle. (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing. (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol. ===== Synonyms ===== (for feeding babies): baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US) (courage): balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck ===== Antonyms ===== (antonym(s) of “courage”): cowardice ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== butler butt (large cask) ===== Descendants ===== Bislama: botel Jamaican Creole: bokl, bakl Sranan Tongo: batra Aukan: bataa → Kari'na: patere Tok Pisin: botol Borrowings ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== 🍼 flagon flask jar ==== Verb ==== 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. (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula. (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position. (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle. (British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval. (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== “bottle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. (premium) === Etymology 2 === 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. ==== Noun ==== bottle (plural bottles) (UK, dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation. (UK, dialectal) A building; house. === Etymology 3 === From Middle English botel (“bundle (of hay)”), from Old French botel, ultimately related to modern French botte (“bundle”). ==== Noun ==== bottle (plural bottles) (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bottle.