different between batts vs batty
batts
English
Noun
batts
- plural of batt
- (informal) batteries (power cells)
- Do we have any spare batts for the TV remote?
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batty
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)
- (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.
- 1992 July 6, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- (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.
- And from each other look thou lead them thus
- 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Derived terms
- batshit
Translations
See also
- squirrelly
Etymology 2
From bottom, possibly influenced by bawtie or butt.
Alternative forms
- bati
Noun
batty (plural batties)
- (West Indian slang, MLE) The buttocks or anus.
- (Jamaican, Britain, derogatory) A homosexual man.
Derived terms
- batty boy
- batty man
- batty rider
References
Jamaican Creole
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bat?/
- Hyphenation: ba?tty
Noun
batty (plural: batty dem, quantified: batty)
- 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
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