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bottle-feeder

bottle-feeder is the alternative form of bottlefeeder.

Meaning of bottlefeeder

Noun

bottlefeeder (plural bottlefeeders)

  1. One who feeds an infant or baby animal with a bottle.
    • One group of researchers (see page 11) have found that at eight days breastfeeders were more likely than bottlefeeders to kiss, rock and touch their babies while feeding and to talk to the babies between sucking bouts, […]1982, Máire Messenger, The Breastfeeding Book, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 15

Forms of bottle-feeder

pluralbottle-feeders

Questions about bottle-feeder

What is bottle-feeder the alternative form of?
Bottle-feeder is the alternative form of bottlefeeder.

Words near bottle-feeder in the dictionary

  1. bottle-arse
  2. bottle-arses
  3. bottle-blond
  4. bottle-fed
  5. bottle-feed
  6. bottle-feeder
  7. bottle-feeders
  8. bottle-feeds
  9. bottle-flipping
  10. bottle-holder
  11. bottle-holders

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