OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3500

bottle

/ˈbɒt.l̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
botella • frasco
The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
arrojo • osadía
(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
You don’t have the bottle to do that!
de bote
A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3501

bottle

/ˈbɒt.l̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embotellar • envasar
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable,…
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.