Noun: bottle
| Singular | bottle |
| Plural | bottles |
Sample Sentences
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Beer is often sold in bottles.
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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. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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I only drank a bottle of beer.
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The baby wants a bottle.
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With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle. [2004 May 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):]
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You don’t have the bottle to do that!
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He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
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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. [2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist:]
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Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
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to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
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to hit the bottle
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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. [1974, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Bottle”, in Winter in America:]
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See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is [1988 April 5, Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”, in Tracy Chapman:]
Nouns inflected like bottle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw-der.
3. Ancient Greekbor.?
4. Latin buttis
5. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
7. Proto-Italic *-elos
8. Proto-Italic *-kelos
9. Latin -culus
10. Late Latin butticula
11. Old French boteillebor.
12. Middle English botel
13. English bottle
14. From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
15. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce. See: Middle English Nouns '
botel'.
Verbs referencing "bottle"
Spanish Nouns
botella, Dutch Nouns
boedel, Spanish Nouns
botija, Zulu Nouns
ibhodlela.