Meanings
nounbottlehead (plural bottleheads)
plural bottleheads
- archaicThe bottlenose whale
- A beetlehead; a fool
But why , for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas?
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC
Origin
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bottlehead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottlehead
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