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bottle-head
[f. as prec. + head.]
†1. A var. of beetle-head (see beetle n.1 3); a stupid fellow. Obs. or arch.
1654Gayton Fest. Notes, Is it the custom of your country, you bottle-head, to use knight-errants after this manner? 1815Scott Guy M. xliv, But why, for a blind bottlehead, did ye not ask the guineas?
†2. Some plant. Obs.
1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 188 Purple Salamanca Bottle-head. Ray 324. 8.
3. The Bottle-nosed Whale (so-called); see bottle-nose 2.
1819Rees Cycl. s.v., Bottle-head, a species of whale.
Hence † ˈbottle-headed = beetle-headed; ‘void of wit’. Grose 1796. |