batty

bat +‎ -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry,[1] from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæti/, [ˈbæɾi]

• Homophone: baddie

• Rhymes: -æti

batty (comparative battier, superlative battiest)

1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
   • 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

     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.

• batshit

• squirrelly

From bottom, possibly influenced by bawtie or butt.[2]

• bati

batty (plural batties)

1. (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
2. (Jamaica, Britain, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 1996, Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion

     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.

• batty boy
• batty man
• batty rider