bottle
Naija
Alternative Form
Etymology
From: English bottle
Pronunciation
- bɔ́tù
Noun
- Container wey get small neck wey de fit put water water someting or anyting wey pass di small mouth.
- Di water wey dey bottle na stream water wey we boil. — (The water in the bottle is water from the stream that was has been been steamed.)
- Clay pot water dey cold, but for here de dey like to put water for bottle come keep am for inside fridge. — (The clay pot can keep the water at room temperature, but people in this place prefer to refrigerate water in a bottle.)
- Container wey drink dey inside.
- If you take pass one bottle, you know where you go land yoursef. — (D_IBA_39_Easter-Preparations, If you take more than one bottle of beer, you will be in real trouble.)
- You just dey make mouth, how many bottle fear let you finish? — (You are just boasting, how many bottles of beer can you dare consume?)
Antonym
Verb
- Make person buy plenty drink for anoder person.
- Our guy don be responsible man as e leave im guys go marry. We go bottle am when we jam am again for any beer parlour. — (Our friend is now a married man; we’ll buy him drinks when next we meet him at any pub.)
- As you don come so, you go bottle men o, no be to dey do like sey no be all of us gader dey. — (Now that you are around, you will buy us drinks. Don’t pretend like you are not one of us.)
Translation
English: to buy drink