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SYLLABICATION:bat·ter
PRONUNCIATION:  btr
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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