batty

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(informal, especially BrE) (of people or ideas) slightly crazy, in a harmless way: a batty old man

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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