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.
Phrases
Bologna bottleBoston round bottleBottlegateCodd bottleCodd-neck bottleKlein bottleMariotte bottleMariotte's bottleMcCartney bottleNansen bottleNew Year's bottleNiskin bottleWinkler bottleWoulfe bottleWoulfe's bottlebaby bottlebaby's bottlebawdy-house bottlebeer bottleblown-in-the-bottleblue bottleblue bottle experimentbluebottlebottle and glassbottle bankbottle blondbottle blondebottle brushbottle cagebottle capbottle chartbottle clubbottle collarbottle cratebottle dancebottle depositbottle drivebottle episodebottle feederbottle fight
Word forms
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.
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