batter

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbætə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French batre (“to beat”).

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
    The firemen battered down the door.
  2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
    I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  3. (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
    Synonym: thrash
    Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  4. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
    Synonym: intoxicate
    That cocktails will batter you!
    I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
  5. (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 Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. (cooking) 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
    pancake batter
    To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.
  2. A binge, a heavy drinking session.
    Synonym: binge
    When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
  3. A paste of clay or loam.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
  4. (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)

  1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
    Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.
Translations

Etymology 4

bat +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
    Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
    The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
  2. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.
    Synonym: batsman
    • 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo
      It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.
Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.te/

Verb

batter

  1. (sports) to bat

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

batter

  1. Apocopic form of battere

Derived terms

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bittar, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑteʀ/, [ˈbɑtɐ]

Adjective

batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)

  1. bitter

Declension

See also

Scots

Noun

batter (uncountable)

  1. batter
  2. glue; paste
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