different between batt vs batty

English

Etymology

Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

batt (plural batts)

1. Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) A shoe.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• TTAB, attB

Middle English

Noun

batt

1. Alternative form of bat

Old Norse

Verb

batt

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of binda

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæti/, [?bæ?i]

• Homophone: baddie

• Rhymes: -æti

Adjective

batty (comparative battier, superlative battiest)

1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
   • 1992 July 6, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     On Sunday’s David Frost Show, Baroness Thatcher looked quite batty to me, eyes rolling.

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.

Derived terms

• batshit

Translations

See also

• squirrelly

Etymology 2

From bottom, possibly influenced by bawtie or butt.

Alternative forms

• bati

Noun

batty (plural batties)

1. (West Indian slang, MLE) The buttocks or anus.
2. (Jamaican, Britain, derogatory) A homosexual man.

Derived terms

• batty boy
• batty man
• batty rider

References

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bat?/
• Hyphenation: ba?tty

Noun

batty (plural: batty dem, quantified: batty)

1. butt, bottom, buttocks (buttocks)

Derived terms

• battyman
• batty rider
• bench and batty
• jonkro batty

See also

• when puss belly full, 'im seh rat batty bitta
• pat a cuss keckle a seh how him batty black suh

References

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 84
• batty – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary