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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbotel(“bottle, flask, wineskin”), fromOld Frenchboteille, fromLate Latinbutticula, diminutive ofbuttis(“cask”).Doublet ofbotija.

Displaced nativeOld Englishampella andpinne. Broadly overtookOld Englishflasce.

Noun

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bottle (pluralbottles)

  2. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
    Beer is often sold inbottles.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      He had one hand on the bouncebottle—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.
  3. The contents of such a container.
    I only drank abottle of beer.
  4. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, ababy bottle.
    The baby wants abottle.
    • 2004 May 3, Tom Armstrong,Marvin (comic):
      With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of hisbottle.
  5. (British, informal) (originally "bottle and glass" as rhyming slang for "arse")Nerve,courage.
    You don’t have thebottle to do that!
    He was going to ask her out, but he lost hisbottle when he saw her.
  6. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hairdye, hence with one’shair color produced bydyeing.
    Did you know he’s abottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
  7. (figurative)Intoxicatingliquor;alcohol.
    to drown one’s troubles in thebottle
    to hit thebottle
    • 1974,Gil Scott-Heron, “The Bottle”, inWinter in America:
      See that black boy over there runnin' scared / His ol' man's in abottle / He done quit his 9 to 5 to drink full time / So now he's livin' in thebottle.
    • 1988 April 5,Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”, inTracy Chapman:
      See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with thebottle, that’s the way it is
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container
contents of such a container
container with a rubber nipple—seebaby bottle
nerve, courage
with one’s hair dyed
bundle
figuratively: alcohol
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Verb

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bottle (third-person singular simple presentbottles,present participlebottling,simple past and past participlebottled)

  1. (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Alsofig.
    This plantbottles 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]”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Review)‎[1]:
      The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talentbottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
  2. (transitive, British) To feed (an infant)baby formula.
    Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so shebottles him.
  3. (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
    The riderbottled the big jump.
  4. (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
    Arsenalbottled the Premier League.
  5. (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
    He wasbottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
  6. (British, slang) Topelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
    Meat Loaf was oncebottled at Reading Festival.
  7. (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, page58:
      Closely related to creep is the process ofbottling. 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 orbottling is caused by the thickness or bulk of the paper.
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seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption
feed (an infant) baby formula
refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage
strike (someone) with a bottle
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishbottle,botel,buttle, fromOld Englishbotl(“building, house”), fromProto-West Germanic*bōþl, fromProto-Germanic*budlą,*buþlą,*bōþlą(“house, dwelling, farm”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰōw-(literally“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

Cognate withNorth Frisianbudel,bodel,bol,boel(“dwelling, inheritable property”),Dutchboedel,boel(“inheritance, estate”),Danishbol(“farm”),Icelandicból(“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related toOld Englishbytlan(“to build”). More atbuild.

Noun

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bottle (pluralbottles)

  1. (UK, dialectal or obsolete) Adwelling;habitation.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Abuilding;house.

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishbotel(“bundle (of hay)”), fromOld Frenchbotel, ultimately related to modern Frenchbotte(“bundle”).

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bottle (pluralbottles)

  1. (obsolete) Abundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
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