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boddle

boddle is the alternative form of bodle.

boddle is the pronunciation spelling of bottle.

Meaning of bodle

Noun

bodle (plural bodles)

  1. (historical) A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny.

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Meaning of bottle

Noun

bottle (plural bottles)

  1. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
    • Beer is often sold in bottles.
  2. The contents of such a container.
    • I only drank a bottle of beer.
  3. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
    • The baby wants a bottle.
  4. (UK, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
    • You don’t have the bottle to do that!
    Synonyms:
    balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
  5. (attributive) 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.
  6. (figuratively) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
    • to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

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Forms of boddle

pluralboddles

Questions about boddle

What is boddle the alternative form of?
Boddle is the alternative form of bodle.

Words near boddle in the dictionary

  1. Boddickers
  2. Boddie
  3. Boddies
  4. Boddin
  5. Boddington
  6. boddle
  7. boddles
  8. Boddy
  9. Boddys
  10. bode
  11. bode one's time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boddle (page history and authors); bodle (page history and authors); bottle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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