英语词汇“batty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

batty1

/ˈbati

adjective (battier, battiest) informal, chiefly British

Mad; insane: you’ll drive me batty!...

I expected her to be all talked out on the subject of her great love; in fact she mentions Gainsbourg first, then evokes his memory repeatedly over the next hour, in which she's charming, if somewhat batty, company.
When I'm old and grey and either too batty, too jaded or simply too wise to care much about social propriety and the trivia of a speeding fine, I will be buying myself a Micra and the A-roads will be mine.
I looked at the audience and thought: how come it is always these people, or their fathers, grandfathers, cousins and batty aunts, who find their way into clubs?

Derivatives

battily

adverb ...

She smiles somewhat battily and nods: ‘I'm the one with personality!’
Sadly, she was too battily flustered to provide me with the recipe.
At one level there is something battily wonderful about this attitude - but it is also appalling.

battiness

noun ...

This particular newspaper - for argument's sake, let's call it the Daily Express - often contains views of extreme toxicity and general battiness.
The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law.
She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality.

Origin

Early 20th century: from bat² + -y¹. Compare with bats.

Rhymes

batty2

/ˈbati

noun West Indian informal

A person’s bottom.You're never far from a party and a sound system in Jamaica, whether you want to shake your batty to the latest dancehall mixes or sink rum punches at sundown....

Shake your batty low, shake your batty high; don't ask me, who, where, when or why.
You cannot just sit on your batty at home watching granada men and motors.

Origin

1930s: representing a pronunciation of botty.

单词	batty
释义	batty1 /ˈbati / adjective (battier, battiest) informal, chiefly British Mad; insane: you’ll drive me batty!... I expected her to be all talked out on the subject of her great love; in fact she mentions Gainsbourg first, then evokes his memory repeatedly over the next hour, in which she's charming, if somewhat batty, company. When I'm old and grey and either too batty, too jaded or simply too wise to care much about social propriety and the trivia of a speeding fine, I will be buying myself a Micra and the A-roads will be mine. I looked at the audience and thought: how come it is always these people, or their fathers, grandfathers, cousins and batty aunts, who find their way into clubs? Derivatives battily adverb ... She smiles somewhat battily and nods: ‘I'm the one with personality!’ Sadly, she was too battily flustered to provide me with the recipe. At one level there is something battily wonderful about this attitude - but it is also appalling. battiness noun ... This particular newspaper - for argument's sake, let's call it the Daily Express - often contains views of extreme toxicity and general battiness. The dozen books of Rumpole short stories endure as a gorgeous chronicle of English class battiness and the absurdities of the law. She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality. Origin Early 20th century: from bat² + -y¹. Compare with bats. Rhymes bratty, catty, chatty, Cincinnati, Dolcelatte, fatty, flattie, Hattie, natty, patty, ratty, Satie, Scarlatti, scatty, Tati, tattie, tatty batty2 /ˈbati / noun West Indian informal A person’s bottom.You're never far from a party and a sound system in Jamaica, whether you want to shake your batty to the latest dancehall mixes or sink rum punches at sundown.... Shake your batty low, shake your batty high; don't ask me, who, where, when or why. You cannot just sit on your batty at home watching granada men and motors. Origin 1930s: representing a pronunciation of botty.
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