betta
Noun
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Noun
betta (plural bettas)
- Any fish of the genus Betta, especially Betta splendens (the Siamese fighting fish).
- (Betta splendens) Siamese fighting fish
- Russian: бойцо́вая ры́бка
- Eye dialect spelling of better#English|better comparative of good.
- 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide, 2001, page 69 ↗,
- 'I think no savvy. This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'
- 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide, 2001, page 69 ↗,
- Eye dialect spelling of better#English|better comparative of well.
- 2003, William Jackson, And the Sea Shall Hide Them, 2005, page 202 ↗,
- “Now she be lookin' betta,” one of the women said. “Like she has a chance to make it.”
- 2003, William Jackson, And the Sea Shall Hide Them, 2005, page 202 ↗,
- (slang) Eye dialect spelling of better#English|better had better.
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