Batty

Definition: Batty

Batty

Adjective

1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "batty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Batty

Gone Batty (1954)

Batty Baseball (1944)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Batty Baseball Cards (reference)

• Batty Beasts (reference)

• Batty Riddles (reference)

• Batty Riddles: Level 3 (Puffin Easy-To-Read) (reference)

• Batty, Bloomers, and Boycott: A Little Etymology of Eponymous Words (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Magic School Bus - Going Batty (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "batty": go batty. Additional references.

Beginning with "batty": batty-esque.

Containing "batty": Strachan-batty-mcallister-speed.

Albanian

I Shkarë (bedlamite), I Marrë (crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, delirious, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, mad, madman, phrenetic, wildcat, zany). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتوه (cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole, witless), ‏خفاشي كالخفاش. (various references)

Bulgarian 

чалнат (wacky), Побъркан. (various references)

Czech

Praštìný (cock eyed, crackers, daft, Dotty, loony, mad, moonstruck, moony, muddle-headed, nutty, touched). (various references)

French

Toqué. (various references)

German

Verrückt (crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, wild, zany). (various references)

Greek 

Τρελλόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

bolond (berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole). (various references)

Italian

Pazzo (bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wacky, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin

attybay.(various references)

Portuguese

relativo a morcego, pateta (booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), palerma (chuckle, dolt, gawky, goof, hawbuck, log, loggerhead, lummox, mope, nincompoop, noddy), com deficiência mental. (various references)

Romanian

Bezmetic (giddy, giddy-head), Zurliu, Smintit (cracked, crazy, mad, moon-struck, off one's dot, scatty, screw-ball), Scrântit (cracked, flighty, potty, sprained), Sãrit (daft), şui (cock eyed). (various references)

Russian 

сумасшедший (bedlamite, bonkers, brain-sick, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, loco, loony, mad, madman, off one's nuts, off-the wall, out of one's mind, psycho, raving maniac, scatty, up the pole, wacko), тронутый, Сумасшедший (Loopy), Спятивший. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udaren (whacked), ćaknut (cracked, crackers, harebrained, moonstruck, queer, soft, soft-headed, touched, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Spanish

Chalado (barmy, bugs, crazy, Dotty, freak, mad, off his head). (various references)

Swedish

vriden (crazy, insane, mad, nuts, twisted), Tokig (barmy, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, Daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, moony, nuts, ridiculous, touched, wrong), Knasig (barmy, dippy, draft, fruity, gaga, half-baked, kookie, kooky, Loopy, mental, nutty, off one's head, off one's nuts, potty, scatty, screwy, touched, wacky, wet). (various references)

Turkish

Kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), Deli (bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), Üşütük, Çatlak. (various references)

Ukrainian

Божевільний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

g� n (barmy, crack-brained, kookie, moonstruck, onion). (various references)

Misspellings

"Batty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atty, Babtie, bagtie, banty, bapti, barty, basty, batay, batey, Bati, batiti, batry, batsy, batt, Batta, Battey, Battig, battu, Batut, Batuta, Baty, bawty, bayti, Betti, bhakti, bitshy, Bitti, bittie, bity, Boattie, boaty, Bofty, Boteti, Botti, Btat, buttie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: batt.

-2 letters: aby, att, bat, bay, tab, tat.

-3 letters: ab, at, ay, ba, by, ta, ya.

+1 letter: bratty.

+2 letters: attaboy, battery.

+3 letters: butylate, butyrate, terabyte, ytterbia.

+4 letters: baptistry, blatantly, brutality, butylated, butylates, butyrates, stability, stylobate, terabytes, tractably, tributary, yottabyte, ytterbias, zettabyte.

+5 letters: abstractly, abstrusity, actability, babysitter, baptistery, bathymetry, bayonetted, bestiality, blastocyst, butylating, butylation, cutability, detestably, metastably, mutability, notability, potability, rubythroat, stylobates, subtotally, tenability, tunability, yottabytes, zettabytes.