Battyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbæti/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbæti/, [ˈbæɾi]

• Homophone: baddie (t-flapping)

• 韻: -æti

形容詞

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).
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     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.

派生語

• batshit

派生語

参考

• squirrelly

語源 2

From bottom, possibly influenced by botty or butt.

別の表記

• bati

名詞

batty (plural batties)

1. (West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.
   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 35:

     He kick the boy down and beat the boy back and batty and leg.

2. (Jamaica, UK, Canada, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 1996, Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion:

     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.

派生語

• batty boy
• batty hole
• batty man
• batty rider

参照

語源 3

名詞

batty

1. Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”).
   • 1834, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, page 23:

     The rice, or batty, is sown in June, at the commencement of the periodical rains; […]