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adjective

Batty adj.

Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings."

Crazy; demented; loony; nuts; as, her constant gabbing is driving me batty. (Colloq.)

Synonyms: bats.

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Etymology of 'Batty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Batty" Quotes from Famous Books

... done a crime you got to figure on what he said and done last, so as to get a line on what he's going to do next; and when I come to study over that hired man had mostly said to me I remembered it was about Wyoming and ropes and cows—things like that. I knowed he was batty, like so many people is, about Western things—not that Western men is any different from anybody else, though a lot of people think ...

— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough

... asking that the committee on constitutional amendments be instructed to provide for the submission of an amendment conferring the franchise upon woman. The resolution was adopted, referred, and reported back with draft of an amendment. The committee were Messrs. True, Windham, Batty, Simonton, Mitchell, Sparks and Gaylord. On motion of Mr. True the joint resolution was ordered to first reading; no further mention ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... Helena man, and one of the State senators. There's a woman lobbyin' for Burroughs, so they say, and she's got Blair batty! Last man in the world you'd expect to be caught by a woman. They say he's a great friend ...

— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

... years, Miss Brown. But at the restaurant where I get breakfast I do get 'batty' cakes ...

— Molly Brown's Senior Days • Nell Speed

... never batting an eye when these railroad fellows come at you and make their little roar about the overcharges. Believe me, it takes nerve to do that—and carry it off as if you were reading 'em a verse out o' the Bible. Blaisdell, the lad who was here before you, went batty and talked in his sleep. Told me once he couldn't see anything but stripes, any ...

— Branded • Francis Lynde

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