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bottle baby

noun

  1. an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bottle baby1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

This is necessary to give the child certain salts which are exceedingly essential to the bottle baby.

I was leadin' in prayer when Elder Bliss was a bottle-baby, at least he looks it if ever I see one.

This is the filler fidgeted for by Juno before she weaned Hercules—who was no bottle-baby—and fed to him afterward.

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