batty

Meanings

Plural: batties

Adjective Satellite

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adj

Mad, crazy, silly.
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).

Noun

The buttocks or anus.
A homosexual man.
Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”).

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky

Scrabble Score: 10

batty is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
batty is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
batty is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

batty is a valid Words With Friends word