[
UK
/bˈæti/
]
[ US /ˈbæti/ ]
[ US /ˈbæti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
it used to drive my husband balmy
How To Use batty In A Sentence
- The phrase "currency board linked to gold" drives some hard-money advocates batty. A Currency Board Linked To Gold
- And now the world and his wife are wondering what the batty couple will name their next child.
- This batty show is a must-see. The Sun
- The school really is batty giving people like you a second look for their scholastic achievement.
- David Batty's touch took the ball beyond John Terry to Keane, who'd only been on the pitch for six minutes.
- It drives me batty when I hear kids - even college students -- uttering sentences such as, "her and I went to the movies," or "you are so not cool," or "it was trafficky. What Happened to Speling, Grammer and Geografie?
- In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox.
- Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval.
- Shake your batty low, shake your batty high; don't ask me, who, where, when or why.
- I'm trying to be patient, I'm trying to be understanding, but all I'm ending up with is batty.