What 🍼 means
A baby bottle: babies, feeding and life with a newborn. The picture is a feeding bottle with a teat, the kind used for formula or pumped breast milk. In messages it stands for the bottle, for the feed, and for babies in general: pregnancy and birth posts, baby-shower invitations, a parent's note about yet another night feed. On a shopping list it simply means milk or formula.
Why did someone send me 🍼?
Either baby news, or a dig at your complaining. In a family or parents' chat it is literal. Sent on its own right after you grumbled, it means “here's your bottle”: you are acting like a baby. From a close friend that is affectionate teasing; from someone you barely know, or in an argument, it is dismissive, the emoji way of saying “grow up.”
People also point the bottle at themselves. The phrase “I'm baby” became a popular meme in 2019, and some add 🍼 to it to call themselves small, helpless and in need of looking after, usually as a self-mocking excuse: “can't face adult emails today, I'm baby 🍼.” That use insults no one.
Warm and ordinary about babies; playful when self-mocking; condescending once aimed at an adult's feelings.
Replying 🍼 to a real complaint reads as “you're a crybaby.” Keep it for friends who will laugh.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- The 2016 proposal for the breastfeeding emoji 🤱 presented it as a companion to 🍼: emoji already had a bottle for feeding babies, but no way to show breastfeeding.
Questions people ask
1Does 🍼 mean breastfeeding?
No. It shows a bottle. Breastfeeding has its own emoji, 🤱.
How to type 🍼
:baby_bottle:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🍼Codes and encoding1 code points
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