tooth-bottle
tooth-bottle noun: a small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
Noun
tooth-bottle (plural tooth-bottles)
- A small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
- They filled up their glasses with the red wine from the tooth-bottle and they had other little glasses of brown wine as well.1930, Life and Letters and the London Mercury - Volume 4, page 367
- But perhaps the most interesting of these fragments in pale-green metal is the neck from a bottle, in shape and size resembling a washstand 'tooth bottle', but with a flatly everted orifice.1935, William Arnold Thorpe, English Glass, page 83
Forms of tooth-bottle
| plural | tooth-bottles |
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Origin of tooth-bottle
Unknown. Most likely from use as a washstand container.
Questions about tooth-bottle
- What does tooth-bottle mean?
- Tooth-bottle means a small metal bottle often used to contain a small amount of alcohol.
- What part of speech is tooth-bottle?
- Tooth-bottle is a noun.
- What is the plural of tooth-bottle?
- The plural of tooth-bottle is tooth-bottles.
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