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Definition bottle

Etymology 1

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 b?til (whence German Beutel).

Noun

bottle (plural bottles)

1. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
2. The contents of such a container.
3. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
4. (Britain, informal) Nerve, courage.
5. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
6. (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
7. (figuratively) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
8. (printing) the tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

Verb

bottle (third-person singular simple present bottles, present participle bottling, simple past and past participle bottled)

1. (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
2. (transitive, Britain) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
3. (Britain, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
4. (Britain, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
5. (Britain, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl, bold (“abode, house, dwelling-place”), from Proto-Germanic *budl?, *buþl?, *b?þl? (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (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 byldan (“to build, construct”). More at build.

Noun

bottle (plural bottles)

1. (Britain, dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation.
2. (Britain, dialectal) A building; house.

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