Lousy vs Battery - What's the difference?
lousy | battery |
Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.
* No offense, but your cooking is lousy .
Infested with lice.
(colloquial) Filled or packed with something.
* The place was lousy with students .
* She's lousy with credit cards, goes shopping every day!
A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().
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, chapter=1 (legal) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
A coordinated group of artillery.
An array of similar things.
A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
As an adjective lousy
is remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.As a noun battery is
a coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().lousy
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(er)Usage notes
Prior to World War II, it was an offensive insult, implying filthiness. Now considered a mild or rather dated term.Derived terms
* lousy evilbattery
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(wikipedia battery)Noun
(batteries)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
- Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
