bladder

Meanings

Noun

• A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
• Specifically, the urinary bladder.
• A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
• The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
• A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
• Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

Verb

• To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
• To store or put up in bladders.

Related

Similar words

• vesica

Origin

• From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ; akin to Old High German platara (German Blatter) and Old Norse blaðra (Danish blære), (Norwegian blære).