a person who inflicts violent physical abuse upon a child, spouse, or other person
Word origin
[1605–15; batter1 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classic, ideal, pivot, series, turnover-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'batterer' in a sentence
batterer
He denied being a wife batterer and said it was a domestic row that got out of hand.