batida

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noun (1)

ba·​ti·​da bə-ˈtē-də 

-ˈchē-

plural batidas

1

: an alcoholic drink traditionally made in Brazil that contains cachaça, either fruit juice or coconut milk, and sugar

They also make the smoothest … batida hereabouts by substituting honey for the customary heaping spoonful of sugar.

—Warren Hoge, New York Times, 12 Nov. 1980

… you can still taste bliss in a coconut batida on the veranda …

—Katherine Ellison, Miami Herald, 4 Dec. 1994

2

: batido

… the batidas are sweet, cold, and frothy.

—New Yorker, 12 June 2000

batido

2 of 2

noun (2)

ba·​ti·​do bə-ˈtē-(ˌ)dō 

variants or less commonly batida

bə-ˈtē-də 

plural batidos also batidas

: a beverage made of usually tropical fruit blended usually with milk and ice

My favorite was an arepa … with a cold melon batido alongside.

—Anne Polisar, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts), 19 Jan. 1981

Quenching a tropical thirst are what batidos are all about.

—Linda Cicero, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 1988

… workers behind the counter whip up batidos from fresh or frozen fruit.

—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 21 June 2006

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese, from Portuguese, "act of beating, something beaten," from bater "to beat" (going back to Latin battere, battuere) + -ida, deverbal noun suffix, from feminine of -ido, past participle suffix (going back to Latin -ītus)

Noun (2)

borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese, masculine variant of batida batida

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1950, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Noun (2)

1950, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for batida

• cressida
• gravida
• lucida
• guida
• leda