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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluebottle \Blue"bot`tle\, blue-bottle \blue-bottle\, n.
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(Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant ( Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Syn: cornflower, bachelor's button.
(Zo["o]l.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly ( Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various blowfly of the genus (taxlink Calliphora genus noshow=1) that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise whilst flying. 2 A marine jelly of the genus ''Physalia'', which includes (taxlink Physalia physalis species noshow=1), the Portuguese man-of-war, and (taxlink Physalia utriculus species noshow=1), the (vern Pacific man-of-war pedia=1); a man-of-war. 3 A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, ''Centaurea cyanus'', with blue flowers resembling bottles. 4 A (vern blue ant pedia=1), (taxlink Diamma bicolor species noshow=1), a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
WordNet
n. an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus]
blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight [syn: Calliphora vicina]
Wikipedia
Bluebottle is a comedy character from the Goon Show, a 1950s British comedy radio show. The character was created and performed by Peter Sellers.
Bluebottle is an adenoidal squeaky-voiced boy scout from East Finchley (the same neighborhood of London where Peter Sellers grew up). He was noted for reading his own stage directions out loud, and was always greeted with a deliberate round of applause from the audience ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas. Waits for audience applause. Not a sausage.") As was common with Goon Show characters, Sellers' Bluebottle was paired with a Spike Milligan character, usually Eccles (the third Goon, Harry Secombe, usually stayed in his alter-ego of Neddie Seagoon throughout the show).
Bluebottle is also prone to humorous misnaming of characters, including himself. For example, he has referred to himself as "Bluebontle" and "Blatbottle" on occasion. Other characters are often misnamed as well, including "Count Morinanty" for Count Jim Moriarty, "Robin Chood" for Robin Hood and "Miss Balustrade" for Minnie Bannister. Neddie is always "My Captain", pronounced with four syllables [ma-cap-i-tain]. In "The Yehti" he reads his own name as "Blunbintle".
According to The Goon Show Companion, Bluebottle was originally known as Ernie Splutmuscle. In the third series episode "The Man Who Never Was", he was cast in a small role. Secombe strides across the ceiling of his club, hurling members to the floor. He bumps into Splutmuscle:
Four shows later, in the episode "The Greatest Mountain in the World", the script refers to "Peter (Bluebottle)".
Early in season 5, Bluebottle would enter with a direct appeal to the audience: "Bluebottle enters, waits for audience applause. Not a sausage." As the character became more popular, he would actually earn the applause that he sought, which he would acknowledge with a grateful, "Oh! Sausinges!" In later seasons, no request or response was needed: Bluebottle's entry into the show would generate a loud, sustained applause by itself.
Bluebottle was often killed during the course of an episode. This would be punctuated by a lamentation such as, "You rotten swine! You've deaded me!" After a while, the character began to anticipate this fate, noting at the appearance of a dangerous prop that "the dreaded deading" is approaching.
Bluebottle can mean:
Usage examples of "bluebottle".
Bluebottle is now scribbling poetry, squawking his inanities and laughing at the badly drawn cartoons he is scratching on our one and only map.
Already they were stirring, bluebottles and greenbottles and horseflies not too finicky to feast on human flesh as well.
And he that has fetched and carried will explain how it has fared with him in his dealings, and if he has brought the wrong sort of sugar or thread he will wheedle away the displeasure from that leaden face as a pastrycook girl will drive bluebottles off a stale bun.
Most blowflies, bluebottle flies and flesh flies buzz around the world looking for garbage - although some go in for rather more exotic fare, like parasitizing snails or earthworms!
When I received the notice that I had been cashiered, Meeley turned me over to the bluebottles.
He had been tagged several times by the bluebottles of Flisten on suspicion of rape-murder but there was no proof.
The bluebottles also do this kind of thing but not on the scale of the Apparatus which is mostly political.
He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles.
He said, "Don't you be too long or I'll get a fender bash from the local bluebottles!
Citizens, bluebottles, officials, we must have about two thousand of them, anything you want.
Flying ants and wasps, bees and bluebottles, butterflies and mosquitoes fought airborne war against a thousand predators, aspises and dheri that snapped at them on the wing.
He had a screen cage full of flies -- big bluebottles that were slow and easy to work with and easy for the crowd to see and hear.
He'd jump all over the stage swiping wildly at the air, come within a frog hair of splatting his fist into the chafing dish a dozen times, get the girl volunteer to flap her arms to flush the little buzzers his way, and all the while talking his talk about the similarities and differences between Herefords and bluebottles until the audience was half-convinced that he was never going to catch the fly but was laughing anyway and jumpy as a drunk with a glass of milk waiting for him to smack a bare hand into that pile of warm dung.
Had the larva lived, it would have matured into a bluebottle Calliphora vicina, a blow fly.
A black-and-white jumping spider had climbed onto the circlet, hunting a bluebottle fly that buzzed about.