| 单词 | batty |
| 释义 | batty (once / 13602 pages) adj If someone's batty, she's eccentric or a little bit wacky. You might love it when your batty great aunt visits because she makes life so interesting. The adjective batty can be derogatory — as when you dismiss a mentally ill person as batty — or fond, as when you praise your batty English teacher, who quotes Shakespeare while doing handstands. If someone says, "You are driving me batty," it means you're making them feel crazy. Batty originally meant "like a bat," with the "eccentric" meaning arising from the expression "bats in the belfry," which means "crazy" or "not right in the head." WORD FAMILYbatty: battier, battiest USAGE EXAMPLESWhen the movie goes off the rails, as it often does, Beatty’s Hughes—delusional, batty, charming in a hypermanipulative fashion—helps focus our attention. Time(Nov 23, 2016) Mr. Beatty’s Hughes has his moments of monstrous egotism, but conveys a sly self-awareness even when Hughes’s battiest behavior leaves those around him visibly cringing. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) The series, which is windswept, watery, and a little batty—the umbrella looks like a spooky, flapping fledermaus—evokes Gorey and the hurricane both. The New Yorker(Nov 03, 2016) adj informal or slang terms for mentally irregular Syn 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 insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
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