Bluebottle

Quick meaning: Bluebottle is a noun meaning Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.

Meaning

Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.

More Meanings

1. A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus, with blue flowers resembling bottles.
2. A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
3. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.
4. (UK, Australia, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
5. (derogatory, obsolete) A bluestocking.
6. A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.

Example Sentences

I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue!

..and did not the rich dowager-countess Bluebottle marry her footman, who forthwith became a lord and was made a privy counsellor.

[…] comic writers […] have never failed to make capital out of the New Police, Peel's Raw-Lobsters, Peelers, Blue Bottles, &c., &c.

To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil.

Word Forms

• bluebottles
• blue-bottle

Synonyms for bluebottle

Depending on context, synonyms include cornflower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cornflower, blue bottle, bluey, greenbottle, bluet, bluebird.

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