Other forms: bladders
The bladder is the organ holding urine, or an inflatable bag. An empty bladder, bladder infection, the bladder of a ball.
It stretches enormously and signals fullness well before it needs to, which is why the urge comes and goes. A football's bladder is the inflatable inner part, and it was once a pig's. Note that the Old English word meant a blister, from a root meaning to blow.
1nounbladderThe organ holding urine.
“I drank so much tea that my bladder was bursting before the film ended.”
2nouninflatableAn inflatable bag inside a ball.
“The football went flat because the rubber bladder inside had a hole.”
bladder is an organ, or a bag.
Old English blaedre means a blister or bladder, from a root meaning to blow. Blow and bloat come from the same swelling.
Proto-Germanic
*blēdrǭ
Proto-West Germanic
*blādrā
Old English
blæddre
Middle English
bladdre
English, today
bladder
Built from
From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic blādrā, from Proto-Germanic blēdrǭ, bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire