hot water bag
hot water bag noun: a hot water bottle.
Noun
hot water bag (plural hot water bags)
- A hot water bottle.
- Nothing is more comfortable, nothing, I should say, more indispensable, than a hot-water bag,—or rather, two hot-water bags; for they will burst sometimes, as I found out, and a passenger who has become intimate with one of these warm bosom friends feels its loss almost as if it were human.1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in Our Hundred Days in Europe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 20
- Presently her stiff limbs relaxed in the gentle heat from her hot water bags.1931, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Put Out the Light, London: Wark Lock
Forms of hot water bag
| plural | hot water bags |
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| alternative form | hot-water bag |
| alternative form | hotwater bag |
Questions about hot water bag
- What does hot water bag mean?
- Hot water bag means a hot water bottle.
- What part of speech is hot water bag?
- Hot water bag is a noun.
- What is the plural of hot water bag?
- The plural of hot water bag is hot water bags.
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