milk bottle
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- noun
- /mɪlk ˈbɑːtəl/
:
biberón
- glass milk bottle
- plastic milk bottles
- an empty milk bottle
I don't know, I just liked them because they were like old school milk bottles and they're glass too.
- I don't know, I just liked them because they were like old school milk bottles and they're glass too.
- Feed baby tigers lines with milk bottles.
- So here we have a milk bottle, and this is made out of a plastic called polyethylene.
- As you can tell, I've been collecting HDPE for quite some time now and this is all from milk bottles so I know it's food safe.
- You know, we would see people walking across in front of us with a crate full of empty milk bottles and disappear down into a basement.
Examples
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But neither could she get up and bring in the milk bottles.
Fiction book (1996) -
I have a few vintage milk bottles that I pull out now and then.
Blog text (13) -
When her brother, Grady, was small, they brought along a milk bottle for his use.
Fiction book (1991) -
Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles, and beer bottles to the store.
Blog text (19) -
Before delivering each milk bottle, you would take a swig and place it on the doorstep.
Blog text (4) -
Fred stops in the doorway to put a milk bottle on the doorstep, and then puts the cat down beside it.
Fiction book (1994) -
One morning, when I arrived upon my customary jaunt just to traipse the area, I found an old milk bottle.
Fiction book (1996) -
She filled the milk bottle with fresh milk from the dairy.
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The daycare center provides a milk bottle for each infant during snack time.
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He carefully poured warm milk into the milk bottle to feed the baby.
Synonyms
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A container with a soft nipple used to feed milk or formula to babies
A small bottle with a soft nipple for giving milk or formula to babies
A bottle with a soft nipple used to feed babies milk or formula
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bottle for milk' is directly and compositionally derived from the nouns 'milk' and 'bottle' following a common English noun–noun compound pattern. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and equivalent compounds exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Milk bottle is a very literal name: it is a bottle for milk, the kind you warm and give to a baby. That's why the expression means 'a bottle designed to hold or serve milk', especially one 'used to feed infants'.