batty

(băt'ē)
adj. Slang, -ti·er, -ti·est.
Crazy; insane.

[From bats in the belfry.]

battiness bat'ti·ness n.

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A news report on Tom Cruise's relationship with Katie Holmes chronicled his progressive insanity:

"First Tom Cruise was head over heels about his new girlfriend... Then he was giddy. Now, he's just plain batty."

Link: Cruise Professes Love for Holmes on Oprah

Posted May 25, 2005.

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adjective

Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang bananas, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British crackers. Law non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, offout ofone's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See sane/insane.

adj

Definition: mad
Antonyms: rational, sane

• Release Date: 1987
• Genre: Action
• Style: Ball and Paddle

1. batty
   adjective
   
   Mad, dotty. (1903 —) .
   British Weekly He's a bit batty every now and anon (1926).
   
   [From the phrase bats in the belfry (see bat¹ noun).]
2. batty
   noun, orig Caribbean
   
   The buttocks. (1935 —) .
   A. Levy The second one him run off with a young girl with a big batty and wiggle-wiggle hips (1999).
   
   [From a Caribbean pronunciation of botty bottom.]

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skør, tosset

Nederlands (Dutch)
waanzinnig, getikt

Français (French)
adj. - cinglé, toqué

Deutsch (German)
adj. - bekloppt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - βλαμμένος, βαρεμένος

Italiano (Italian)
pazzo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - maluco, palerma, semelhante a morcego

Русский (Russian)
придурковатый, эксцентричный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - chiflado, chalado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - knasig, knäpp, tokig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
古怪的, 蝙蝠的, 疯狂的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 古怪的, 蝙蝠的, 瘋狂的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 박쥐의, 머리가 돈, 어리석은

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - コウモリの, 頭の変な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غريب, معتوه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוזר, מטורף‬

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