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Hattier vs Battier - What's the difference?

hattier | battier |

As adjectives the difference between hattier and battier

is that hattier is (hatty) while battier is (batty).

hattier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (hatty)

    • hatty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, relating to, or resembling, a hat.
  • * 1850 , London Charivari (volume 19, page 156)
    • 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.
  • (of a person) Fond of hats.

    • battier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (batty)

    • Anagrams

    *

    batty

    English

    Adjective

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

    Derived terms

    *

    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