different between batty vs batshit

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

English

Alternative forms

• bat shit
• bat-shit (adjective only)

Etymology

Presumably from batty (“crazy”), itself from earlier have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Possibly influenced by or derived from apeshit, particularly in phrase go apeshit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæt.??t/
• Hyphenation: bat?shit

Noun

batshit (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, literally) fecal matter produced by bats
2. (slang, vulgar) nonsense, horseshit; especially when said by or attributed to someone irrational.
3. (slang, vulgar) extreme irrationality or unreasonableness, insanity, craziness.

Synonyms

• guano

Adjective

batshit (comparative more batshit, superlative most batshit)

1. (slang, vulgar) extremely irrational or unreasonable, insane, crazy.

   Don't take any courses from that professor. She's completely batshit.

   • 1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino:

     Nicky Santoro: And what the fuck are you doing on TV anyhow? You know I get calls from back home every fuckin day, they think you went batshit!

   • 2002, David Simon, The Wire, (ref):

     Those subpoenas went out today!

     The front office is gonna go batshit!

Synonyms

• batcrap
• batpoop
• crazy
• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Related terms

• apeshit
• bat
• batty
• go batshit
• shit

Translations

Adverb

batshit (not comparable)

1. (slang) Used as an intensifier, particularly for insane or synonyms.

   When we heard about it he went batshit nuts.

Anagrams

• Ba'thist, battish