[f. SUCK- + BOTTLE sb.]
1. An infant’s feeding-bottle. (Cf. SUCKING-BOTTLE.)
1641. Brome, Joviall Crew, V. Wks. 1873, 450. Nephew Martin, still the Childe with a Suck-bottle of Sack.
1674. trans. Scheffer’s Lapland, xxvi. 123. Rain-deers milk … is grosser and thicker then they can well draw out of a suck-bottle.
1709. [W. King], Usef. Trans. Philos., March & April, 56. The Child must have Presents of Silver Caudle-Cups, Porringers, Spoons, and Suck-Bottles.
1853. Househ. Words, VIII. 146/1. They will furnish you with every assistance you can want; a valet-de-chambre,… a nurse-maid, and, thanks to the suck-bottle, even a nurse.
2. A tippler. Also as a quasi-proper name.
a. 1652. Brome, Love-sick Crt., V. ii. What sayes old Suck-bottle?
1707. Ward, Terræ-filius, No. 2. 9. Such a Swill-Belly’d Suck-Bottle.
