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bottlefeeder

noun

Etymology

From bottle + feeder.

  1. inherited from feedere
  2. compounded as bottlefeeder — “bottle + feeder”

Definitions

  1. One who feeds an infant or baby animal with a bottle.

    • One group of researchers (see page 11) have found that at eight days breastfeeders were more likely than bottlefeeders to kiss, rock and touch their babies while feeding and to talk to the babies between sucking bouts, […]
    • For Mary, the hardest part about the experience was the feeling of failure and her perception that other mothers thought of her as a "lazy bottlefeeder."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA