Brattier vs Battier - What's the difference?
brattier | battier |
(bratty)
Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite
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(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 brattier and battier
is that brattier is comparative of bratty while battier is comparative of batty.brattier
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Adjective
(head)bratty
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(en-adj)citation, page= , passage=When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.}}
battier
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*batty
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(er)- Batty wings. — Shakespeare.
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* 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.