Other forms: bottles
A bottle is a tall container with a narrow neck that drinks come in. A bottle of water, open the bottle, glass bottles.
The narrow neck is what lets it be sealed and poured in a controlled stream. Glass bottles are recycled endlessly without losing quality, which plastic ones are not. In British slang, bottle means nerve — he lost his bottle, that took some bottle. Note bottle it, meaning to lose your nerve at the last moment; and bottleneck, which is any narrow point that slows everything behind it.
1nounbottleA tall container with a narrow neck.
“She filled a bottle with water before going out for a run.”
2nounnerveNerve or courage, in British slang.
“He didn't have the bottle to tell his boss he was leaving.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
bottle is a container.
Old French boteille comes from Latin butticula, a small cask, from buttis. Butt, as in a water butt, and butler — originally the bottle-keeper — come from the same cask.
Middle English
botel
English, today
bottle
Built from
From Middle English botel. From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). a doublet of botija. Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA