| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bat·ter |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b t  r |
| NOUN: | A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, milk, and eggs, used in cooking. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters
To coat in batter: battered the vegetables and then fried them. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English bater, probably from Old French bateure, a beating, from batre, to beat. See batter1.
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