battels
/ˈbat(ə)lz
/plural noun
(At Oxford University) a college account for food and accommodation expenses.St Peter's College JCR has passed a motion to add £5 to every under-graduate's termly battels bill to be donated to charity....
- To cover the cost of this operation, all the undergraduates in college were charged a share of £500 to their battels.
- Following the deadline for the payment of battels, the Queens' partial-payment rent strike faced an uncertain future yesterday when college authorities denied non-payers the right to use certain facilities.
Origin
Late 16th century: perhaps from dialect battle 'nourish', from the earlier adjective battle 'nutritious'; probably related to batten2.
- the gift of tongues
- the glass is half-full (or half-empty)
- the gloves are off (or with the gloves off or take the gloves off)
- thegn
- the Goat
- the Godhead
- the Good Book
- the Good Shepherd
- the gory details
- the Graces
- the Grail
- the Grampians
- the Grand Manner
- the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)
- the Great
- the great and the good
- the great Australian dream
- the Great Depression
- the Great Game
- the Great Mogul
- the (great) unwashed
- the green-eyed monster
- the Greensand
- the Grenadines
- the Grim Reaper