Sunday, February 19, 2017

1466-Bat-Ones-Eyes by A Way with Words

In the 17th century, the verb to bate and the likely related verb, to bat, were used in falconry to mean “to flap wildly.”  By the 19th century, to bat was also part of the phrase to bat one’s eyelashes. http://waywordradio.org via Pocket http://ift.tt/2kXWwNR

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