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battier | battler |

As an adjective battier

is (batty).

As a noun battler is

one who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general or battler can be .

battier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (batty)

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    batty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
    • Batty wings. — Shakespeare.

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * squirrelly

    Noun

    (batties)
  • (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
  • (Jamaica, UK, derogatory) A homosexual man.
  • * 1996 , Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion
    • For example, recent Jamaican 'raga' lyrics by Buju Banton and Brand Nubian attach the affirmation of black identity to crude animosity towards homosexuality and contain offensive language against the 'batties' as icons of non-blackness.

    Derived terms

    * batty boy * batty man * batty rider

    References

    battler

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general.
  • (Australian, dated) An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
  • * 1900 , , The Shanty-Keeper?s Wife'', ''Over the Sliprails , Gutenberg eBook # 1313,
    • “But look here!” interrupted the Pilgrim, desperately, “we can?t afford to wait! We?re only ‘battlers ’, me and my mate, pickin? up crumbs by the wayside. We?ve got to catch the——”
  • One who who works hard in the face of adversity.
  • * 2006 , , page 27,
    • In an earlier era Australia was a nation of battlers', of working people who were hardened by the rigours of economic depression and war, and, if not proud of their penury, certainly not ashamed of it. The Aussie '''battler''' became an icon of Australian political folklore, and the image persists into the present even though, as a result of sustained economic growth for the last five decades, the number of people who truly struggle has shrunk to a small proportion of the population. For every genuine '''battler''' there are three or four who imagine they fit the description. That is why our political leaders keep alive and exploit the myth of the Aussie ' battler .
    Derived terms
    * Aussie battler

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)

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