batter

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

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

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).

Noun[edit]

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.
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Etymology 3[edit]

Unknown.

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

batter (plural batters)

  1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
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Etymology 4[edit]

bat +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun[edit]

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.
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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

batter

  1. (sports) to bat

Conjugation[edit]

  Conjugation of batter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive batter avoir batté
gerund en battant en ayant batté
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 Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the 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 Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— batte
/bat/ 		— battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.te/ 		—
1literary tenses

Italian[edit]

Verb[edit]

batter

  1. Apocopic form of battere

Derived terms[edit]

Luxembourgish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑteʀ/, [ˈbɑtɐ]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. bitter

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Scots[edit]

Noun[edit]

batter (uncountable)

  1. batter
  2. glue; paste
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