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单词 bottle-feeding
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bottle-feedingn.

Brit. /ˈbɒtlfiːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəlˌfidɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bottle n.3, feeding n.
Etymology: < bottle n.3 + feeding n. Compare slightly later bottle-feed v., and also breastfeeding n..
The action or practice of feeding a baby with milk from a feeding bottle (cf. breastfeeding n.). Also: the feeding of a young animal by means of a bottle.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > feeding with bottle
bottle-feeding1855
substitute feeding1893
1855 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 31 Jan. 1/6 Woman who can take charge of a baby from its birth; understands spoon and bottle-feeding.
1889 Med. Rec. 2 Mar. 234/2 Bottle-feeding is not necessarily fatal even in a hospital.
1940 N. J. Eastman Expectant Motherhood (1947) x. 167 We are led to believe that artificial, or bottle feeding, being based on modern, scientific calculations, is actually superior to the ‘old-fashioned method’.
1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 93/2 With more than about half a dozen kids, bottle feeding tends to become impractical.
1996 J. A. Phillips in Granta Autumn 68 Bottle-feeding would be so much more trouble, all those bottles to wash and sterilize.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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