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Webster 1913 Edition
Batty
Bat′ty
(băt′ty̆)
, Adj.
1.
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
“Batty wings.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Batty
BAT'TY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
batty
batty
English
Adjective
batty (comparative battier, superlative battiest)
- (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
- (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
- 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.
- And from each other look thou lead them thus
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Noun
batty (plural batties)
- (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
- (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.
- 1996, Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion