betta

[ bet-uh ]

Origin of betta

1
1925–30; <New Latin < ?

Words Nearby betta

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How to use betta in a sentence

  • Pale, but prepared to meet the worst, Paula returned to the squalid room she occupied with her faithful betta.

  • Paula passed a fearful night in the small, frightfully hot prison-cell in which she and betta were shut up.

  • This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'

    The Ebb-Tide | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne
  • More betta you get anoda compado sah—some good plaupa man dat no smokee.

    The Truth about Opium | William H. Brereton
  • Oh, yes; she's a great deal betta than she was befo'e we came.

    Ragged Lady, Complete | William Dean Howells

British Dictionary definitions for betta

betta

/ (ˈbɛtə) /


noun
  1. another name for fighting fish

Origin of betta

1
C19: from New Latin, of unknown origin

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