batt
English
editEtymology
editLate Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -æt
Noun
editbatt (plural batts)
- Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
- (Polari, usually in the plural) A shoe.
- 1977, Rictor Norton, quoting Peter Burton, The Gentle Art of Confounding Naffs, quoted in Myth of the Modern Homosexual, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 115:
- As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “batting”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
editIcelandic
editVerb
editbatt
Lombard
editEtymology
editFrom Latin battere, from earlier battuere. Compare Italian battere.
Verb
editbatt
- to beat
Middle English
editNoun
editbatt
- Alternative form of bat
Old English
editNoun
editbatt ?
Descendants
editOld Norse
editVerb
editbatt
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