batt
English edit
Etymology edit
Late 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 edit
batt (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 edit
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “batting”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Icelandic edit
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batt
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
From Latin battere, from earlier battuere. Compare Italian battere.
Verb edit
batt
- to beat
Middle English edit
Noun edit
batt
- Alternative form of bat
Old Norse edit
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batt