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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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BOTTLE, n.¹ Also boatil, boattle.

Sc. forms of Eng. bottle.Gsw. 1990 John and Willy Maley From the Calton to Catalonia 44:
A few boattles a stout by the Clyde an watchin the sun go doon.Edb. 1995 Irvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996) 148:
Then he noticed a squad of scarfers come in from a bus. - Naw, make it Grolsch, eh, he said. He turned to me and winked, - Heavier boatils, eh.m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 31:
Swats made nae bliddie corses oniwey,
in boattle, tankard, tassie, gless or joug.

Sc. combs.:

1. Bottle-brose, medicine.Edb. 1915 T. W. Paterson Auld Saws 131:
An aft'ner than we guess, we'll jink The doctor's bottle-brose.

2. Bottle-crony, a boon companion.Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 24:
His bottle-cronies' faces . . . Glister't on ilk side like a raw O' hairst-moons down the table.

3. Bottle-drinking, the opening and consuming of a bottle of whisky brought by a wooer to the home of his sweetheart on the occasion of his asking her parents' consent to their marriage. Cf. Bottlin', 1.Ork. 1920 J. Firth Reminisc. Ork. Par. (1922) 53:
The length of time elapsing between the betrothal, as we might call the bottle-drinking, and the marriage . . . depended principally on the state of the moon.

4. Bottle-nose, the fifteen-spined stickleback, Spinachia spinachia (Fif. 1880 F. Day Fishes I. 247).