LateMiddle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the nounbat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.[1]
batt (pluralbatts)
- Pieces offabric orfibre used for stuffing; as forbatting orinsulation
- (Polari, usually in theplural) Ashoe.
1977, Rictor Norton, quoting Peter Burton,The Gentle Art of Confounding Naffs, quoted inMyth of the Modern Homosexual, Bloomsbury Publishing, published2016,→ISBN, page115: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 ourbatts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.
fabric of fibre used for stuffing
batt (pluralbatts)
- (slang)Clipping ofbattery.
- Alternative form:bat
1996 January 29, Saleen001, “Cell phones for sale below wholesale”, inalt.cellular[1] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on9 September 2025:Kit / rapid charger, leather case, 2 NIMH slimbatts, Nicad XTbatt, overnite charger, RJ11 land line to cellular conversion interface, more
2000 June 30, Steve Perry, “cheapest place for laptop bat?”, inengland.ads.computer[2] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on9 September 2025:where is cheapest place to buy laptopbatt?
2005 March 21, Paul Jeffree, “Disposal of laptop batteries”, inalt.pcnews[3] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on9 September 2025:I bought a phonebatt from them a while ago.
batt
- first/third-personsingularpastindicativeactive ofbinda
FromLatinbattere, from earlierbattuere. CompareItalianbattere.
batt
- tobeat
batt
- alternative form ofbat
batt ?
- bat
- cudgel
- Synonym:cyċġel
- club
batt
- first/third-personsingularpastindicativeactive ofbinda
