bottle imp

noun

Cartesian diver.

Origin of bottle imp

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby bottle imp

bottle club, bottle gentian, bottle glass, bottle gourd, bottle green, bottle imp, bottle out, bottle party, bottle shop, bottle tree, bottle turning

Example sentences from the Web for bottle imp

  • Magistrate: The witness has the bottle-imp in her mind, perhaps?

    Great Porter Square, v. 1 |Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

  • Misery is a bottle-imp which you may put to your lips without going through the swing-doors of experience.

    The Life of Francis Thompson |Everard Meynell