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batt¹

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.

noun batts

  1. Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
  2. Polari, plural normally 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.

batt²

Rhymes with -æt

noun batts

  1. abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of battery Kit / rapid charger, leather case, 2 NIMH slim batts, Nicad XT batt, overnite charger, RJ11 land line to cellular conversion interface, more

Batt³

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

* 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”).

proper noun

  1. Ireland A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
  2. A surname transferred from the given name.

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noun fabric of fibre used for stuffing

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@misc{batt_2026,
  title = {batt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/batt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}