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noun

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

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Origin of bottle baby

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby bottle baby

Böttger, Botticelli, Botticelli, Sandro, bottine, bottle, bottle baby, bottle bank, bottle bill, bottlebrush, bottlebrush grass, bottle cap

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How to use bottle baby in a sentence

How about baby drama with little Abijean and the Wee Baby Seamus?
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He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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Three months ago, the two had a baby together and the Internet mostly just shrugged.
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At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.
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Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
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She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper.
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Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
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The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.
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