batty
Plural: batties
Adjective Satellite
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Adj
- Mad, crazy, silly.
- Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
Noun
- The buttocks or anus.
- A homosexual man.
- Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”).
Adjective
- Crazy or eccentric.
Examples
- You’d have to be batty to challenge my word without being certain it’s a phony.
Origin / Etymology
From bat + -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”).
Synonyms
around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky
Scrabble Score: 10
batty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbatty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
batty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary