bottle baby

noun

an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.

First recorded in 1890–95

This is necessary to give the child certain salts which are exceedingly essential to the bottle baby.

I was leadin' in prayer when Elder Bliss was a bottle-baby, at least he looks it if ever I see one.

This is the filler fidgeted for by Juno before she weaned Hercules—who was no bottle-baby—and fed to him afterward.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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