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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Batty \Bat"ty\ (b[a^]t"t[y^]), a.
     1. Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Crazy; demented; loony; nuts; as, her constant gabbing is
        driving me batty. [Colloq.]


  
     Syn: bats.
          [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  batty
       adj : informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
             drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats},
              {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft}, {dotty},
              {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony},
              {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
             the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]
       [also: {battiest}, {battier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "batty":
     apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, beany, bedlamite,
     befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish,
     buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy,
     credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, deranged, dippy, dizzy,
     doting, dotty, dumb, fatuitous, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded,
     foolish, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, futile, gaga,
     goofy, gulled, haywire, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept,
     infatuated, insane, just plain nuts, kooky, loony, loopy, mad,
     maniac, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, off the hinges,
     off the track, off the wall, potty, round the bend, sappy,
     screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly,
     slaphappy, stupid, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless
  
  

















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