Hattier vs Battier - What's the difference?
hattier | battier |
(hatty)
Of, relating to, or resembling, a hat.
* 1850 , London Charivari (volume 19, page 156)
(of a person) Fond of hats. (batty)
(slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
(obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
(West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
(Jamaica, UK, derogatory) A homosexual man.
* 1996 , Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion
As adjectives the difference between hattier and battier
is that hattier is (hatty) while battier is (batty).hattier
English
Adjective
(head)hatty
English
Adjective
(er)- Every one agrees that there ought to be a reform in Hats A proclamation could never accomplish a hatty reform ; but we are not prepared to say something might not be done by shrieval interference, which would be consistent with those municipal Institutions that all Englishmen cherish.
battier
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*batty
English
Adjective
(er)- Batty wings. — Shakespeare.
Derived terms
*See also
* squirrellyNoun
(batties)- 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.