bladder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A container in the form of a flexible bag.

   A fuel bladder.

2. 2
   noun

   Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

   To swim with bladders of philosophy.

3. 3
   verb

   To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

   Bladder'd up with pride of his own mcrit.

4. 4
   verb

   To store or put up in bladders.

   Bladdered lard.

Common collocations

• bladder sphincter Noun + noun
• gall bladder Noun + noun

From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).

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