hot-water bottle

British

noun

a receptacle, now usually made of rubber, designed to be filled with hot water, used for warming a bed or parts of the body

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

If I was laughing inwardly at the hot-water bottle, I stop when Pebbles burns up the course.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2019

As a native of Ireland, I, and all of us, were very familiar growing up with the hot-water bottle.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2018

A hot-water bottle applied to my capsaicin patch inflicted the perceptual equivalent of a third-degree burn, after which a cooling pack placed on the same spot brought tear-inducing relief.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

“It was so cold that Peter put a hot-water bottle on his belly and another one on his back, and my mother wore her fur coat.”

From Architectural Digest • Aug. 4, 2015

There was already some hot water in the kettle, so I filled the hot-water bottle and put it under the blankets.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023