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noun
- A container, typically made of glass and having a tapered neck, used for holding liquids.
- Beer is often sold in bottles.
- The contents of such a container.
- I only drank a of beer.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants
- The baby wants a .
- (context, UK, informal) Nerve, courage.
- You don't have the to do that!
- He was going to ask her out, but he lost his when he saw her.
Translations: - Dutch: fles
- French: biberon
- German: Flasche
- Italian: biberon
- Spanish: biberón (italbrac, especially Spain, Dominican Republic and Mexico; formal in other countries), bibi (italbrac, Puerto Rico, colloquial), chupón (italbrac, Costa Rica), mamadera (italbrac, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), mamila (italbrac, Mexico, colloquial), pacha (italbrac, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua), pepe (italbrac, Honduras, colloquial), pomo de leche (italbrac, Cuba), tetero (italbrac, Colombia, Venezuela)
verb (bottl, ing)
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- (context, transitive, UK) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- (context, UK, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- (context, UK, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
Translations: - Dutch: bottelen
- French: donner le biberon í , nourrir au biberon
- German: in Flaschen abfí¼llen
- Italian: imbottigliare
- Spanish: embotellar
Etymology: bouteille
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