Battier vs Cattier - What's the difference?
battier | cattier |
(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
(catty)
(informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
* 2009 , Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8,
* 1699 , Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1 :
* 1847 , Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social , Volume 2, James Madden (publisher),
As adjectives the difference between battier and cattier
is that battier is comparative of batty while cattier is comparative of catty.battier
English
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.
Derived terms
* batty boy * batty man * batty riderReferences
cattier
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Adjective
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*catty
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Alternative forms
* cattieEtymology 1
; in sense “hostility”, see (m).Adjective
(er)- a catty smell
Synonyms
* (spiteful) bitchy (derogatory), cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spitefulSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) kati, from (etyl) languages, Mandarin:Noun
(head)page 94:
- To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
- 16 Mess'', make a ''Tale'', which here is 20 ''s''. ''English'', 5 ''Tale'' make a ''Bancal'', a weight so called, and 20 ''Bancal'' make a ''Catty , another weight.
page 124:
- Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty , according to size and quality.