different between bottled vs bottler

English

Etymology

From bottle +? -ed.

Pronunciation

Verb

bottled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottle

Adjective

bottled (comparative more bottled, superlative most bottled)

1. Packaged in a bottle.

   bottled water

2. (slang) drunk
3. Shaped or protuberant like a bottle.
4. Kept in restraint; bottled up.

Synonyms

• (packaged in a bottle):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (bottle-shaped): lecythiform
• (Kept in restraint): contained, suppressed

Anagrams

• blotted

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?l?/, /?b?tl??/, [?b??l??]

Etymology 1

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle +? -er.

Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)

1. A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
   • 1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63,

     Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola?s sales and marketing groups.

     “When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonalds is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes.

   • 2010, James M. Wahlen, Clyde P. Stickney, Paul Brown, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective, 7th edition, page 278,

     Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers.

2. A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
3. (Britain, slang) A person who or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure.
4. A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.

Synonyms

• (person or group prone to unexpected failure): choker

Derived terms

• water bottler

Related terms

• butler

Etymology 2

Origin relates to something being of a high quality and worthy of preservation by bottling, probably from the phrase "good enough to bottle"; compare corker.

Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "real") a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
   • 2007, Anthony David Parsons, Tony Parsons, Valley of the White Gold, unnumbered page,

     Mum's a real bottler and you?ll find her very sympathetic.

References

• “bottler”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “bottler” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "bottler" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• Roblett, Tolbert, blotter