batchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1926, U.K. House of Commons, Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration), London: H.M.S.O., p. 195,
I was speaking to the matron about different cases in her home, and she said to me, to use her own expression, that this woman was “batchy”; she meant that she was mentally affected after her operation.
text: It’s batchy to get married at eighteen.
ref: 1962, Alan Sillitoe, Key to the Door, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 26, p. 386:
text: “Roll up your sleeve, Alice, and I will make you happier than you’ve ever been.”
She shook her head. “Sod off. I’ve heard of that stuff. Sends you batchy.”
ref: 1997, Maureen Jennings, chapter 11, in Except the Dying, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 127:
synonyms: word: barmy
word: batty
word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Of unsound mind, crazy; lacking good sense or judgment, silly.
examples: text: […] two of them [the crew] were now temporarily incapable of either good or harm. They had gone quite “batchy” with fright, requiring a not too gentle application of the tiller to their heads in order to keep them quiet.
ref: 1898, Frank T. Bullen, chapter 5, in The Cruise of the “Cachalot,”, London: Smith, Elder, page 39:
text: “Does that mean we have to go out in those small boats?” he asked of Sherwood […].
“Nothing less! But buck up, old man, and don’t go batchy, as these whalers call it!”
ref: 1925, Patrick Casey, chapter 10, in Sea Plunder, Boston: Small, Maynard, pages 68–69:
text: He’d seen a great deal older and more seasoned men than that lot go batchy through fatigue or some inexplicable, inner nervous flaw.
ref: 1958, Robert Carse, chapter 6, in Great Circle,, New York: Bantam, page 73:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: rattled
unnerved
glosses: Experiencing a loss of courage and self-control.