Bottlefeeder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bottlefeeder is a noun meaning One who feeds an infant or baby animal with a bottle.
Meaning
One who feeds an infant or baby animal with a bottle.
Example Sentences
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."
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, […]
No matter how strong a mother's reason, there is always someone ready to second-guess her, though they may at the same time deny that that's what they're doing — as in this case of on-line criticism of a bottlefeeder by her breastfeeding in-law: […]
Word Forms
- bottlefeeders
- bottle-feeder
- bottle feeder
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bottle feeder, feeder, allocaretaker, bottler, bottleholder, bottleman.
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