bluebottlen.

Brit.

/ˈbluːˌbɒtl/, U.S.

/ˈbluˌbɑdəl/

Forms: late Middle English blewbothel, 1500s–1600s blewbottel, 1600s blewbottle, 1600s– bluebottle.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., bottle n.², bottle n.³

Etymology: Originally (in sense 1) < blue adj. + bottle n.² In senses 2 and 3 probably humorously after sense 1, with allusion to the blue colour of the things denoted. Sense 4 probably shows an independent formation, < blue adj. + bottle n.³, with allusion to the appearance of its blue-tinged gas-filled bladder and blue tentacles.

a. The cornflower, Centaurea cyanus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > corn-flower

bluebottle?a1450

bluet?a1450

blue poppya1500

hawdod?1523

blue-blaw1538

cornflower1578

blue bonnet1777

blue cap1821

French pink1854

?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 167 Iacintus ruticus is an herbe þat men clepe blewbothel [a1500 Harl. blewboþen, a1450 Royal blew boyome]. Þis herbe growith in corn and haȝt a blew flour.

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. N iv Blewbottel groweth in the corne.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Battisegola, the weed blewbottle, Corneflower, or hurtsickle.

1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant 7 Wearing a Wreath about her Head consisting of variety of Grain..intermingled with yellow Flowers, Blew-bottles and erratick Poppies.

1738 J. Hoofnail New Pract. Improvem. Exper. Colours 6 The ex-pressed Juice of the Violets or Bluebottles.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 404 Blue Bottle..whose beautiful blue colour would have attracted regard, had it been rare.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 124 Centaurea Cyanus..blue bottle, knapweed, hurt sickle or corn flower.

1861 Ladies' Compan. 20 44/2 The Corn bluebottle (Centaurea cyanus) seldom opens its azure eyes out of the precincts of the standing corn.

1911 J. Kearton et al. Nature-Lover’s Handbk. 49 The cornfields now being to grow red with Poppies, and here may also be sought the Cornflower, or Bluebottle, one of the few really blue wildflowers that we have.

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) i. 29 Crowns of bluebottles, my father's favorite flower.

2001 D. Loewer Solving Weed Prob. x. 157 Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus), also called bachelor buttons or bluebottles, are annuals that sport brilliant deep blue flowers.

b. Any of several other plants having blue flowers; (in later use) esp. the grape hyacinth (genus Muscari).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > names applied to various flowers

heliotropec1000

flower jaunette1423

helichrysum1551

sunflower1562

Armeria1578

hyacinth1578

pimpernel1578

vaccin1589

heliochryse1593

purple1604

sunflower1622

mayflower1626

starflower1629

bluebottle1648

pink1731

trumpet-flower1732

fly-wort1753

witches' thimbles1820

honey plant1824

black-eyed Susan1836

shell-flower1845

pincushion1847

pincushion flower1856

nightingale1862

garland-flower1866

paper-white1880

1648 J. Bobart Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis 18 Cyanus Babylonicus: Great Orientall Blewbottle.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 118 Made of the flowers of Succory or Blew-bottles.

1857 Floricultural Cabinet Apr. 98 This [sc. the bluebell] is a great favourite with children, who, under the name of ‘Bluebottles’, gather the pretty flowers..of this humble representative of the beautiful Hyacinths.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 15 Blue Bottle, Scilla nutans, Centaurea cyanus, and various other blue flowers.

1909 H. A. Hayes Little Maryland Garden 71 Very pretty now are the grape hyacinths, called ‘blue bottles’ by the country people.

1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya 564 Bluets, Houstonia (springers, bluebottles).

1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch 398 A little boy or girl with a tight bunch of bluebottles in his or her hand is a common springtime sight in the Dutch country.

2001 T. M. Howard Bulbs Warm Climates 165 [Muscari] neglectum... Bluebottles, starch hyacinth, grape hyacinth.

2. (A nickname for) a person who wears blue clothing or a blue uniform; spec. †(a) a beadle (obsolete); (b) a policeman. Cf. blue coat n. 2b.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iv. 20 [Addressing a beadle] I will haue you as soundly swingde for this, you blewbottle [1623 blew-Bottel'd] rogue.

1678 W. Winstanley Four for a Penny 4 Mrs. Joan, when she is minded to see her Sweet-heart, and Gammar Blew-bottle going to a Christening.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. x. 281 I fancy you would love to move to court like him, followed by a round score of old blue-bottles.

1845 G. W. M. Reynolds Myst. London I. ii. 5/2 Them chaps in..the House of Commons gets on their legs and praises the bluebottles up to the skies as the most acutest police in the world.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Sept. Caught in his own toils by the bluebottles of Scotland-yard.

1946 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xi. 87 ‘Stilton turns out to be the village bluebottle.’.. ‘A policeman, sir?’

1991 I. Sinclair Downriver (1995) xi. 341 Traumatic injuries. Ruffians, far gone in drink, drew their shivs on the constable guarding the site; swore to slit any bluebottle who got in their way.

3. More fully bluebottle fly. A dark blue blowfly of the family Calliphoridae; spec. the large Calliphora vomitaria, which is abundant worldwide.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > calliphora or musca vomitoria (blue-bottle)

blue fly1665

bluebottle1703

meat fly1822

1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 156 A Man could not walk London-streets without having his Nose persecuted by Gnats, Wasps, or Blue-bottles.

c1720 M. Prior Flies in Poems (1741) 158 A Fly upon the Chariot-Pole Cries out ‘What Blue-bottle alive Did ever with such fury drive?’

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxi. 37 Humming like flies around the newest blaze, The bluest of bluebottles you e'er saw.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 199 The buzzing of a stout blue-bottle fly.

1875 ‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton II. 155 You surely don't mean to say you are going to fish with blue-bottles?

1904 A. Ross Life Sketches iii. 29 He brushed off the blue bottles that settled on his own pate.

1947 Times 18 Aug. 5/4 Can we be surprised at epidemics when our butchers' and fishmongers' shops are crawling with flies and bluebottles?

1993 A. Chaudhuri Afternoon Raag xxiii. 108 Midday brings the smell of ripening jackfruit, the buzz and gleam of bluebottle flies, the fragrance of mango blooms.

2011 J. M. Greer Apocalypse Not p. xvii If female bluebottles find male bluebottles with longer wings more attractive, more bluebottles in each generation will have longer wings.

4. Australian, New Zealand, and South African. The Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > genus Physalia > member of

Portuguese man-of-war1707

sea-bladder1860

bluebottle1906

1906 Sydney Morning Herald 4 Apr. 2/2 Percy..took his mount to Coogee and indulged in swimming in the ocean for about three hours; but upon coming out both were found to be badly bitten by blue-bottles.

1937 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 21 Dec. 23/6 The dangers of the sea and sun, the sting of bluebottles and jellyfish, the pinch of crabs, [etc.].

1964 Cape Times 11 Jan. (Week-end Mag.) 4/3 The Portuguese Man o' War is small... The common name is bluebottle.

2009 E. Almond Surfing iii. 99/1 First aid for a bluebottle sting. 1. Use sea water to flush the tentacles from the skin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bluebottle
释义	bluebottlen. Brit. /ˈbluːˌbɒtl/, U.S. /ˈbluˌbɑdəl/ Forms: late Middle English blewbothel, 1500s–1600s blewbottel, 1600s blewbottle, 1600s– bluebottle. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., bottle n.², bottle n.³ Etymology: Originally (in sense 1) < blue adj. + bottle n.² In senses 2 and 3 probably humorously after sense 1, with allusion to the blue colour of the things denoted. Sense 4 probably shows an independent formation, < blue adj. + bottle n.³, with allusion to the appearance of its blue-tinged gas-filled bladder and blue tentacles. 1. a. The cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > corn-flower bluebottle?a1450 bluet?a1450 blue poppya1500 hawdod?1523 blue-blaw1538 cornflower1578 blue bonnet1777 blue cap1821 French pink1854 ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 167 Iacintus ruticus is an herbe þat men clepe blewbothel [a1500 Harl. blewboþen, a1450 Royal blew boyome]. Þis herbe growith in corn and haȝt a blew flour. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. N iv Blewbottel groweth in the corne. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Battisegola, the weed blewbottle, Corneflower, or hurtsickle. 1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant 7 Wearing a Wreath about her Head consisting of variety of Grain..intermingled with yellow Flowers, Blew-bottles and erratick Poppies. 1738 J. Hoofnail New Pract. Improvem. Exper. Colours 6 The ex-pressed Juice of the Violets or Bluebottles. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 404 Blue Bottle..whose beautiful blue colour would have attracted regard, had it been rare. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 124 Centaurea Cyanus..blue bottle, knapweed, hurt sickle or corn flower. 1861 Ladies' Compan. 20 44/2 The Corn bluebottle (Centaurea cyanus) seldom opens its azure eyes out of the precincts of the standing corn. 1911 J. Kearton et al. Nature-Lover’s Handbk. 49 The cornfields now being to grow red with Poppies, and here may also be sought the Cornflower, or Bluebottle, one of the few really blue wildflowers that we have. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) i. 29 Crowns of bluebottles, my father's favorite flower. 2001 D. Loewer Solving Weed Prob. x. 157 Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus), also called bachelor buttons or bluebottles, are annuals that sport brilliant deep blue flowers. b. Any of several other plants having blue flowers; (in later use) esp. the grape hyacinth (genus Muscari). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > names applied to various flowers heliotropec1000 flower jaunette1423 helichrysum1551 sunflower1562 Armeria1578 hyacinth1578 pimpernel1578 vaccin1589 heliochryse1593 purple1604 sunflower1622 mayflower1626 starflower1629 bluebottle1648 pink1731 trumpet-flower1732 fly-wort1753 witches' thimbles1820 honey plant1824 black-eyed Susan1836 shell-flower1845 pincushion1847 pincushion flower1856 nightingale1862 garland-flower1866 paper-white1880 1648 J. Bobart Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis 18 Cyanus Babylonicus: Great Orientall Blewbottle. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 118 Made of the flowers of Succory or Blew-bottles. 1857 Floricultural Cabinet Apr. 98 This [sc. the bluebell] is a great favourite with children, who, under the name of ‘Bluebottles’, gather the pretty flowers..of this humble representative of the beautiful Hyacinths. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 15 Blue Bottle, Scilla nutans, Centaurea cyanus, and various other blue flowers. 1909 H. A. Hayes Little Maryland Garden 71 Very pretty now are the grape hyacinths, called ‘blue bottles’ by the country people. 1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya 564 Bluets, Houstonia (springers, bluebottles). 1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch 398 A little boy or girl with a tight bunch of bluebottles in his or her hand is a common springtime sight in the Dutch country. 2001 T. M. Howard Bulbs Warm Climates 165 [Muscari] neglectum... Bluebottles, starch hyacinth, grape hyacinth. 2. (A nickname for) a person who wears blue clothing or a blue uniform; spec. †(a) a beadle (obsolete); (b) a policeman. Cf. blue coat n. 2b.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iv. 20 [Addressing a beadle] I will haue you as soundly swingde for this, you blewbottle [1623 blew-Bottel'd] rogue. View more context for this quotation 1678 W. Winstanley Four for a Penny 4 Mrs. Joan, when she is minded to see her Sweet-heart, and Gammar Blew-bottle going to a Christening. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. x. 281 I fancy you would love to move to court like him, followed by a round score of old blue-bottles. 1845 G. W. M. Reynolds Myst. London I. ii. 5/2 Them chaps in..the House of Commons gets on their legs and praises the bluebottles up to the skies as the most acutest police in the world. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Sept. Caught in his own toils by the bluebottles of Scotland-yard. 1946 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xi. 87 ‘Stilton turns out to be the village bluebottle.’.. ‘A policeman, sir?’ 1991 I. Sinclair Downriver (1995) xi. 341 Traumatic injuries. Ruffians, far gone in drink, drew their shivs on the constable guarding the site; swore to slit any bluebottle who got in their way. 3. More fully bluebottle fly. A dark blue blowfly of the family Calliphoridae; spec. the large Calliphora vomitaria, which is abundant worldwide. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > calliphora or musca vomitoria (blue-bottle) blue fly1665 bluebottle1703 meat fly1822 1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 156 A Man could not walk London-streets without having his Nose persecuted by Gnats, Wasps, or Blue-bottles. c1720 M. Prior Flies in Poems (1741) 158 A Fly upon the Chariot-Pole Cries out ‘What Blue-bottle alive Did ever with such fury drive?’ 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxi. 37 Humming like flies around the newest blaze, The bluest of bluebottles you e'er saw. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 199 The buzzing of a stout blue-bottle fly. 1875 ‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton II. 155 You surely don't mean to say you are going to fish with blue-bottles? 1904 A. Ross Life Sketches iii. 29 He brushed off the blue bottles that settled on his own pate. 1947 Times 18 Aug. 5/4 Can we be surprised at epidemics when our butchers' and fishmongers' shops are crawling with flies and bluebottles? 1993 A. Chaudhuri Afternoon Raag xxiii. 108 Midday brings the smell of ripening jackfruit, the buzz and gleam of bluebottle flies, the fragrance of mango blooms. 2011 J. M. Greer Apocalypse Not p. xvii If female bluebottles find male bluebottles with longer wings more attractive, more bluebottles in each generation will have longer wings. 4. Australian, New Zealand, and South African. The Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > genus Physalia > member of Portuguese man-of-war1707 sea-bladder1860 bluebottle1906 1906 Sydney Morning Herald 4 Apr. 2/2 Percy..took his mount to Coogee and indulged in swimming in the ocean for about three hours; but upon coming out both were found to be badly bitten by blue-bottles. 1937 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 21 Dec. 23/6 The dangers of the sea and sun, the sting of bluebottles and jellyfish, the pinch of crabs, [etc.]. 1964 Cape Times 11 Jan. (Week-end Mag.) 4/3 The Portuguese Man o' War is small... The common name is bluebottle. 2009 E. Almond Surfing iii. 99/1 First aid for a bluebottle sting. 1. Use sea water to flush the tentacles from the skin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1450
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