单词 | bottle-fed |
释义 | bottle-fedadj. Of a baby: fed with milk from a feeding bottle (cf. breastfed adj.). Also of a young animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > bottle-fed bottle-fed1855 bottle-feed1869 1855 M. L. Knapp Ess. Cholera Infantum 8 The weakly, the scrofulous, the offspring of poorly-fed, sickly parents, the early-orphaned, and bottle-fed infants, are the picked subjects. 1872 Med. Rec. 1 Feb. 542/1 That..bottle-fed babies in a public institution should survive, is a rare exception. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 10/1 This might be one of the causes of..infantile mortality, especially amongst bottle-fed children. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) iii. 92 Dogs and cats and a bottle-fed lamb at the door and pigeons and a hutch of rabbits in the yard. 1996 D. Benton Food for Thought iii. 41 Do breast-fed babies do better than bottle-fed babies? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1855 |
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