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batter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæt?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bæt??/, [?bæ??]
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).
Verb
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- Synonym: thrash
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
- (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- Synonym: intoxicate
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Derived terms
- battered person syndrome
- battered woman syndrome
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).
Noun
batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)
- (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying
- (countable, slang) A binge, a heavy drinking session.
- Synonym: binge
- A paste of clay or loam.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown.
Verb
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
Noun
batter (plural batters)
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Translations
Etymology 4
bat +? -er (“agent suffix”).
Noun
batter (plural batters)
- (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
- (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.
- Synonym: batsman
- Hyponyms: batswoman, batsman
- Hypernym: cricketer
- 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Tarbet, tabret
Dutch
Verb
batter
- first-person singular present indicative of batteren
- imperative of batteren
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.te/
Verb
batter
- (sports) To bat.
Conjugation
Italian
Verb
batter
- Apocopic form of battere
Derived terms
- in un batter d'occhio
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bate?/, [?b?t?]
Adjective
batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)
- bitter
Declension
See also
- (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss (Category: lb:Taste)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan) batar
Etymology
From Late Latin battere, present active infinitive of batt?, alternative form of Latin battu? (“beat, pound; fight”).
Verb
batter
- (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.
Derived terms
- batta-ovs
- battasenda
Scots
Noun
batter (uncountable)
- A batter.
- A glue; paste.
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lash
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /læ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).
Noun
lash (plural lashes)
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
- (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
Translations
Verb
lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)
- (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward
- (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- Synonym: berate
- (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
- (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
Synonyms
- (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip
Translations
See also
- lash out
Etymology 2
From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”)
Verb
lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)
- (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- to lash something to a spar
- lash a pack on a horse's back
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old French lasche (French lâche).
Adjective
lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)
- (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
- (obsolete) Relaxed.
- Soft, watery, wet.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
- Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
- (Ulster) excellent, wonderful
- We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
- That Chinese (food) was lash!
- (Britain) Drunk.
Synonyms
- (remiss): at fault, blameworthy, lax, neglectful, negligent, reprehensible
- (relaxed): See Thesaurus:carefree or Thesaurus:calm
- (soft, watery, wet): spongy, squidgy; see also Thesaurus:wet
- (excellent): See Thesaurus:excellent
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
Anagrams
- Ahls, HALs, HLAs, Sahl, lahs, shal
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Etymology
From Middle English laste, from Old English latost.
Adverb
lash
- last
Adjective
lash
- last
Related terms
- lauthest
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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