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adjectivebattiest, battier ˈbatiˈbædi British informal Mad; insane. 你们要把我逼疯了！ Example sentencesExamples - Where's the batty professor gotten himself now?
- I expected her to be all talked out on the subject of her great love; in fact she mentions Gainsbourg first, then evokes his memory repeatedly over the next hour, in which she's charming, if somewhat batty, company.
- He was trying to be friendly in a slightly heavy-handed fashion, and possibly had a couple of marbles missing from his collection, but was more like a slightly batty grandfather, than a menace.
- I looked at the audience and thought: how come it is always these people, or their fathers, grandfathers, cousins and batty aunts, who find their way into clubs?
- In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
- It drives me absolutely batty when I thank a waiter, sales clerk, or other paid service person and the response is ‘no problem.’
- We could guffaw at the antics of a batty learner-driver, a camp airport official or flummoxed hotel workers.
- Julie, the wonderfully batty nurse, is back on duty.
- Through her journal we learn that her father is a mildly batty author who is resented by the family for relocating them to a remote castle in the British countryside years before.
- The school really is batty giving people like you a second look for their scholastic achievement.
- I'm trying to be patient, I'm trying to be understanding, but all I'm ending up with is batty.
- The girl looked at the window of the Drexler place, and shied off as the old, batty pair of eyes came down upon her.
- To think that she has twice come close to being married, and especially to being married to young and attractive Fortune - she must be quite batty to turn away from that.
- When I'm old and grey and either too batty, too jaded or simply too wise to care much about social propriety and the trivia of a speeding fine, I will be buying myself a Micra and the A-roads will be mine.
- Don Quijote's pretense at madness and further references to Mambrino's basin, is starting to convince Sancho that his master is indeed batty and he tells him so.
- And now the world and his wife are wondering what the batty couple will name their next child.
- But he admits being batty about the phenomenon.
- Faint, hard-to-read indicators and an obtuse, non-intuitive interface drove me batty trying to move from one screen to the next.
- You can drive yourself batty trying to figure out what every color is supposed to symbolize.
- Her impulsive, easily outraged father has removed all his children from school to be home-educated, and her mother, a batty inventor, is usually ensconced among collections of not-quite-perfected gadgets.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth mad, insane, odd, queer, eccentric, deranged, demented, crazed, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable
Derivativesadverb British informal She smiles somewhat battily and nods: ‘I'm the one with personality!’ Example sentencesExamples - Sadly, she was too battily flustered to provide me with the recipe.
- One of the best… her view of the world is grim, her style effortlessly comic and her characters battily original.
- This seemed so battily far down the list of priorities for ‘60s radicals (why improve capitalism's products when the whole point was to abolish it and them?) that he seemed, even then, a Quixotic character.
- At one level there is something battily wonderful about this attitude - but it is also appalling.
noun British informal The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law. Example sentencesExamples - She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality.
- This particular newspaper - for argument's sake, let's call it the Daily Express - often contains views of extreme toxicity and general battiness.
- Later, as she declined into alcoholism, old age, and general battiness, her genius itself rusted over.
- The essential battiness of this notion seems to have escaped PI.
OriginEarly 20th century: from bat2 + -y1. Compare with bats. Rhymesbratty, catty, chatty, Cincinnati, Dolcelatte, fatty, flattie, Hattie, natty, patty, ratty, Satie, Scarlatti, scatty, Tati, tattie, tatty noun ˈbatiˈbædi West Indian informal A person's bottom. 〈西印度〉（人的）臀部 Example sentencesExamples - You're never far from a party and a sound system in Jamaica, whether you want to shake your batty to the latest dancehall mixes or sink rum punches at sundown.
- You cannot just sit on your batty at home watching granada men and motors.
- Shake your batty low, shake your batty high; don't ask me, who, where, when or why.
Origin1930s: representing a pronunciation of botty. adjectiveˈbadēˈbædi British informal Crazy; insane. 你们要把我逼疯了！ Example sentencesExamples - You can drive yourself batty trying to figure out what every color is supposed to symbolize.
- Her impulsive, easily outraged father has removed all his children from school to be home-educated, and her mother, a batty inventor, is usually ensconced among collections of not-quite-perfected gadgets.
- I looked at the audience and thought: how come it is always these people, or their fathers, grandfathers, cousins and batty aunts, who find their way into clubs?
- I'm trying to be patient, I'm trying to be understanding, but all I'm ending up with is batty.
- We could guffaw at the antics of a batty learner-driver, a camp airport official or flummoxed hotel workers.
- To think that she has twice come close to being married, and especially to being married to young and attractive Fortune - she must be quite batty to turn away from that.
- In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
- He was trying to be friendly in a slightly heavy-handed fashion, and possibly had a couple of marbles missing from his collection, but was more like a slightly batty grandfather, than a menace.
- And now the world and his wife are wondering what the batty couple will name their next child.
- But he admits being batty about the phenomenon.
- Faint, hard-to-read indicators and an obtuse, non-intuitive interface drove me batty trying to move from one screen to the next.
- The girl looked at the window of the Drexler place, and shied off as the old, batty pair of eyes came down upon her.
- Through her journal we learn that her father is a mildly batty author who is resented by the family for relocating them to a remote castle in the British countryside years before.
- It drives me absolutely batty when I thank a waiter, sales clerk, or other paid service person and the response is ‘no problem.’
- Julie, the wonderfully batty nurse, is back on duty.
- Where's the batty professor gotten himself now?
- I expected her to be all talked out on the subject of her great love; in fact she mentions Gainsbourg first, then evokes his memory repeatedly over the next hour, in which she's charming, if somewhat batty, company.
- When I'm old and grey and either too batty, too jaded or simply too wise to care much about social propriety and the trivia of a speeding fine, I will be buying myself a Micra and the A-roads will be mine.
- Don Quijote's pretense at madness and further references to Mambrino's basin, is starting to convince Sancho that his master is indeed batty and he tells him so.
- The school really is batty giving people like you a second look for their scholastic achievement.
Synonyms insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth mad, insane, odd, queer, eccentric, deranged, demented, crazed, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable
OriginEarly 20th century: from bat + -y. Compare with bats. nounˈbadēˈbædi West Indian informal A person's bottom. 〈西印度〉（人的）臀部 Example sentencesExamples - Shake your batty low, shake your batty high; don't ask me, who, where, when or why.
- You cannot just sit on your batty at home watching granada men and motors.
- You're never far from a party and a sound system in Jamaica, whether you want to shake your batty to the latest dancehall mixes or sink rum punches at sundown.
Origin1930s: representing a pronunciation of botty. |