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If you call someone batty, you mean they are a little crazy — odd, scatter-brained, maybe talking to the cat — but you are not of them and you are not trying to be cruel. It is a soft, almost fond word, more British than American, and a bit old-fashioned; younger people more often say crazy or nuts. It comes from bat, the flying animal, and from the old joke that a mad person has “bats in the ” (bats flying wildly around in the church tower that is their head). Batshit is a much ruder, stronger cousin from the same idea. This is the “slightly crazy” word, not a hard insult.
core核心畫面
組成bat (the flying animal) + -y (having that quality). The “crazy” sense, from 1903, comes from the saying have bats in one’s belfry.
同家族的字
- batthe flying animal; from the old joke that someone has bats flying around in their head
- batshita much ruder, stronger word from the same bat idea
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Battyname
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A surname transferred from the given name.
battyadj詞源 1/ˈbæti/
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slangMad, crazy, silly.
- He had left too fast. He must have seen the girl. He couldn't be sure she was too batty to see him.
- On Sunday’s David Frost Show, Baroness Thatcher looked quite batty to me, eyes rolling.
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obsoleteBelonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
- 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.
battynoun詞源 2
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The buttocks or anus.
- He kick the boy down and beat the boy back and batty and leg.
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derogatoryA homosexual man.
- For example, recent Jamaican 'raga' lyrics by Buju Banton and Brand Nubian attach the affirmation of black identity to crude animosity towards homosexuality and contain offensive language against the 'batties' as icons of non-blackness.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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