: 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
: 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 batidabatida
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