feeding cup

noun

First recorded in 1880–85

She was reared up in bed, and he put the feeding-cup between her lips that he would have died to save from any hurt.

Nourishment should be fluid for the first three days, and taken from a feeding-cup from the opposite corner of the mouth.

They managed to make her swallow a little food from a feeding cup.

But this incident of the feeding-cup was the climax, somehow.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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