Cuff vs Batter - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) glove; mitten.
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
The end of a pants leg, folded up.
To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To fight; to scuffle; to box.
* Dryden
To buffet.
* Tennyson
A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
* Spenser
* Hudibras
to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
to defeat soundly; to thrash
(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate
(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying
A binge, a heavy drinking session.
A paste of clay or loam.
(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
Cuff is a related term of batter.
As nouns the difference between cuff and batter
is that cuff is (obsolete) glove; mitten or cuff can be a blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap while batter is a beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (eg pancakes, cake, or yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (eg fish) prior to frying or batter can be an incline on the outer face of a built wall or batter can be (baseball) the player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.As verbs the difference between cuff and batter
is that cuff is to furnish with cuffs or cuff can be to hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap while batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly or batter can be (architecture) to slope (of walls, buildings etc).cuff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cuffe, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1520, “to hit”, apparently of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
- They with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
- While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
- cuffed by the gale
Noun
(en noun)- Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
- Many a bitter kick and cuff .
batter
English
(wikipedia batter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He battered his wife with a walking stick.
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- That cocktails will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter .
- When he went on a batter , he became very violent.
- (Holland)
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.
Etymology 4
.Noun
(en noun)- The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.