batter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbætə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]

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• 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.

   • 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.

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

to hit or strike violently and repeatedly

• Bulgarian: бия (bg) (bija), бухам (bg) (buham), блъскам (bg) (blǎskam), разнебитвам (bg) (raznebitvam)
• Finnish: hakata (fi), pahoinpidellä (fi), piestä (fi)
• German: prügeln (de)
• Greek: χτυπώ (el) (chtypó)
• Italian: battere (it)
• Maori: tātā, tukituki
• Norwegian: slå (no)

  Bokmål: pryle (no)

• Portuguese: bater (pt), espancar (pt)
• Romanian: bate (ro), lovi (ro)
• Russian: избива́ть (ru) impf (izbivátʹ), изби́ть (ru) pf (izbítʹ), колоти́ть (ru) impf (kolotítʹ), поколоти́ть (ru) pf (pokolotítʹ)
• Spanish: apalear (es)
• Swedish: misshandla (sv)

to coat with batter

• Catalan: arrebossar (ca)
• Finnish: kuorruttaa (fi), leivittää (fi)
• German: panieren (de), einbacken
• Italian: pastellare

• Spanish: apanar (es), rebozar (es), empanar (es)
• Swedish: panera (sv)
• Tagalog: rebosahin

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.

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4. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Translations

beaten mixture of flour and liquid

• Bashkir: ҡамыр (qamïr)
• Bulgarian: тесто (bg) (testo)
• Catalan: batut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵糊 (zh), 面糊 (zh) (miànhù)

• Czech: těsto (cs) n
• Dutch: beslag (nl) n
• Finnish: kakkutaikina, lettutaikina (fi), tiristystaikina, frityyritaikina
• French: pâte (fr) f
• German: Backteig m, Panade f
• Greek: κουρκούτι (el) n (kourkoúti)
• Hungarian: tészta (hu)

• Ido: pasto (io)
• Italian: impasto (it), pastella (it) f
• Korean: 반죽 (ko) (banjuk)
• Norman: farce f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: røre (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: røre f

• Polish: ciasto (pl) n
• Portuguese: polme m
• Russian: те́сто (ru) n (tésto)
• Spanish: batido (es) m
• Swedish: smet (sv) c
• Welsh: cytew m

binge

• Bulgarian: запой (bg) (zapoj)
• Finnish: ryyppyputki
• German: Gelage (de) n, Trinkgelage (de) n, Saufgelage (de) n, Besäufnis (de) n

• Italian: bisboccia (it) f, gozzoviglia (it) f
• Russian: запо́й (ru) m (zapój)
• Spanish: botellón (es) m

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.

Translations

a slope

• Bulgarian: наклон (bg) (naklon), отстъп (otstǎp)
• Finnish: rinne (fi)

• Greek: κλίση (el) (klísi)
• Spanish: pendiente (es) f

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

player attempting to hit the ball

• Catalan: batedor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 击球手

• Czech: pálkař m
• Finnish: lyöjä (fi)
• French: batteur (fr) m, frappeur (fr) m
• German: Batter m

• Italian: battitore
• Japanese: 打者 (ja) (だしゃ, dasha), バッター (battā)
• Maori: kaihauhau
• Polish: pałkarz m
• Portuguese: batedor (pt) m
• Russian: бэ́ттер (ru) m (bɛ́tter), бью́щий (ru) m (bʹjúščij)
• Spanish: bateador
• Swedish: slagman c

Anagrams

• Tarbet, tabret

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.te/

Verb

batter

1. (sports) to bat

Conjugation

Conjugation of batter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		batter			avoir + past participle
gerund		en battant			en ayant + past participle
present participle		battant /ba.tɑ̃/
past participle		batté /ba.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	batte /bat/	battes /bat/	batte /bat/	battons /ba.tɔ̃/	battez /ba.te/	battent /bat/
	imperfect	battais /ba.tɛ/	battais /ba.tɛ/	battait /ba.tɛ/	battions /ba.tjɔ̃/	battiez /ba.tje/	battaient /ba.tɛ/
	past historic1	battai /ba.te/	battas /ba.ta/	batta /ba.ta/	battâmes /ba.tam/	battâtes /ba.tat/	battèrent /ba.tɛʁ/
	future	batterai /ba.tʁe/	batteras /ba.tʁa/	battera /ba.tʁa/	batterons /ba.tʁɔ̃/	batterez /ba.tʁe/	batteront /ba.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	batterais /ba.tʁɛ/	batterais /ba.tʁɛ/	batterait /ba.tʁɛ/	batterions /ba.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	batteriez /ba.tə.ʁje/	batteraient /ba.tʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior1	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	batte /bat/	battes /bat/	batte /bat/	battions /ba.tjɔ̃/	battiez /ba.tje/	battent /bat/
	imperfect1	battasse /ba.tas/	battasses /ba.tas/	battât /ba.ta/	battassions /ba.ta.sjɔ̃/	battassiez /ba.ta.sje/	battassent /ba.tas/
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect1	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
present		—	batte /bat/	—	battons /ba.tɔ̃/	battez /ba.te/	—
past		—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	present imperative of avoir + past participle2	—
1 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
2 Trudie Maria Booth (2005), French Verbs and Idioms, p. 88.

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Italian

Verb

batter

1. Apocopic form of battere

Derived terms

• in un batter d'occhio

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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

declension of batter

number and gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass batter	si ass batter	et ass batter	si si(nn) batter
without article	nominative/accusative	batteren	batter	battert	batter
	dative	batterem	batterer	batterem	batteren
with article	nominative/accusative	batteren	batter	battert	batter
	dative	batteren	batterer	batteren	batteren

See also

• (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss

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Scots

Noun

batter (uncountable)

1. batter
2. glue; paste