night-bat

English

Alternative forms

• nightbat

Noun

night-bat (plural night-bats)

1. (now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:

     there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz].

2. (now literary) A ghost, an evil spirit.
3. (Jamaica) A large nocturnal moth.

Jamaican Creole

Noun

night-bat (plural night-bat dem, quantified night-bat)

1. Alternative form of bat