batt
batt noun: pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation. Also the clipping of battery.
Noun
batt (plural batts)
- Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
- A shoe.
- 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.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
Proper noun capitalized: Batt
Batt
- A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
Also used as
batt is also the clipping of battery.
Forms of batt
| plural | batts |
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Origin of batt
Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.
* As an English surname, a pet form of Bartholomew. * Also as an English surname, possibly from Old English batt (“cudgel”); see modern bat. * As a German surname, from a derivative of Medieval Latin beatus (“blessed”).
Words that rhyme with batt
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- mat
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- gat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
- Flatt
Questions about batt
- What does batt mean?
- Batt means pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation.
- What part of speech is batt?
- Batt can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of batt?
- The plural of batt is batts.
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