bat

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
2. An old woman.

Verb

1. To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
2. To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
3. To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
4. (obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

Verb

1. To flutter
2. To wink.
3. To flit quickly from place to place.

Conceptos

murciélago

bate

bat

batear

raqueta

palo

pala

guiñada

guiñar

maza

juerga

vampiro

ave nocturna

stick

aletear

pestañear

chiroptera

palo hockey

panique

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/bæt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”).
Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (literally “night-flapper”).