batty

Meaning

Adj

1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).

Noun

1. (Multicultural-London-English) The buttocks or anus.
2. (Canada, Jamaica, UK, derogatory) A homosexual man.

Noun

Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”).

Synonyms

bats

bonkers

nutty

crackers

barmy

nuts

loco

loony

dotty

balmy

fruity

round the bend

around the bend

insane

berserk

kookie

kooky

cracked

mad

maniac

loopy

wacky

crazy

whacky

cuckoo

daft

buggy

haywire

one card shy of a full deck

berserker

crackpot

fool

kook

lunatic

madwoman

maniacal

nut

owl

🦉

wacko

meshuggeneh

rompish

cracky

mad as a March hare

meshugge

batchy

luny

Translations

τρελλός

λοξός

cinglé

boja

desequilibrat

guillat

ximple

tarat

geisteskrank

plemplem

dement

aus den Angeln gehoben

sonat

tocat

boig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbæti/

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”).