batty

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”).

adj

  1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
    On Sunday’s David Frost Show, Baroness Thatcher looked quite batty to me, eyes rolling. July 6 1992, Edwina Currie, Diary
  2. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).

Etymology 2

From bottom, possibly influenced by botty or butt.

noun

  1. (West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.
    He kick the boy down and beat the boy back and batty and leg. 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 35
  2. (Jamaica, UK, Canada, derogatory) A homosexual man.
    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

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