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Batty   /bˈæti/   Listen
adjective
Batty  adj.  
1.
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings."
2.
Crazy; demented; loony; nuts; as, her constant gabbing is driving me batty. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: bats.






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"Batty" Quotes from Famous Books



... raking up old muck with me, you rotten big poisoner!" roared McQuiggan: "or you'll get the hot end of it. How about that girl that went batty after ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... frame thy tongue, Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong; And sometime rail thou like Demetrius; And from each other look thou lead them thus, Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep: Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye; Whose liquor hath this virtuous property, To take from thence all error with his might And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight. When they next wake, all ...
— A Midsummer Night's Dream • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... went batty and lost two hundred thousand dollars?" asked Tommy, sliding down from the slate ...
— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman

... "This batty Swede tried to ride over me," Lewis replied. "I give him fair warnin', and then I downed his horse. When he hits the dirt he goes on the prod. These fellers pulled him off of me. That ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... The Fruit-Garden illustrated. Containing sure Methods for improving all the best Kinds of Fruits now extant in England. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham. ...
— An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad • Walter Harte


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