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bottlehead

bottlehead noun: the bottlenose whale.

Noun

bottlehead (plural bottleheads)

  1. (archaic) The bottlenose whale
  2. A beetlehead; a fool
    • But why , for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas?1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Forms of bottlehead

pluralbottleheads

Origin of bottlehead

From bottle + head.

Questions about bottlehead

What does bottlehead mean?
Bottlehead means the bottlenose whale.
What part of speech is bottlehead?
Bottlehead is a noun.
What is the plural of bottlehead?
The plural of bottlehead is bottleheads.

Words near bottlehead in the dictionary

  1. bottlefly
  2. bottleful
  3. bottlefuls
  4. Bottlegate
  5. bottleham
  6. bottlehead
  7. bottleheads
  8. bottleholder
  9. bottleholders
  10. bottlejob
  11. bottlejobs

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