Usually means: Eccentric or crazy; slightly mad.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Batty:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. batty: Merriam-Webster
  2. batty, batty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. batty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. batty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. batty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Batty, batty: Wordnik
  7. batty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Batty, batty: Wiktionary
  9. batty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. batty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. batty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Batty, batty: Dictionary.com
  13. batty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Batty (surname), Batty (video game), Batty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Batty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. batty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. batty: Rhymezone
  18. batty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. batty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. batty: FreeDictionary.org
  21. batty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. batty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. batty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. batty: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. batty: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. batty, batty, batty, batty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. batty: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See battier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (batty)

▸ adjective:  (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
▸ noun:  (West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.
▸ noun:  (Jamaica, UK, Canada, derogatory) A homosexual man.
▸ noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.
▸ noun:  Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”). [Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.]

Similar:
bonkers, dotty, loony, barmy, kooky, Bats, wacky, insane, daft, crackers, more...

Types:
fruit bat, flying fox, megabat, microbat, vampire bat, more...

Phrases:
batty boy, batty man, batty boys, batty men, batty rider, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, poor, plumb, quite, clean, late, plain, urban



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Similar:
bonkers, dotty, loony, barmy, kooky, Bats, wacky, insane, daft, crackers, more...

Types:
fruit bat, flying fox, megabat, microbat, vampire bat, more...

Phrases:
batty boy, batty man, batty boys, batty men, batty rider, David Batty, Rosie Batty, Nora Batty, Emily Batty, big batty, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, poor, plumb, quite, clean, late, plain, urban



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