battish

adj

battish

adj

Etymology From bat + -ish.

1

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a bat.

  • battish wings
  • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:

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