| 单词 | bottle baby |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle baby bottle baby n. (a) a baby fed with milk from a feeding bottle, rather than breastfed; (b) originally U.S. slang an alcoholic; a drunkard. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > baby reared by specific method bottle baby1869 Plunket1909 1869 Boston Daily Advertiser 26 Oct. 4/2 Good Health is out for November, with..an essay on ‘Bottle Babies’, which many mothers will find of interest. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 4/1 Wanted, nurse for night duty only; one thoroughly accustomed to bottle babies. 1925 in S. Armitage J. Held, Jr. (1987) 23 (cartoon caption) You needn't worry about Clarabelle, the bottle baby. 1961 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 18 July 15/2 Alcoholics Anonymous..helps one out of every 20 so-called ‘Bottle babies’. 1993 Independent (Nexis) 19 Dec. 94 You take the rough—that's the complete alcoholic package... You can't change him. He's a bottle baby. 2014 R. E. Jones & K. H. Lopez Human Reprod. Biol. (ed. 4) xii. 239/2 Because a father can feed a bottle baby but not a breast-fed one, nursing mothers are often the ones getting up during the middle of the night. < as lemmas |
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