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词汇 batty
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batty adj.

1580s, "pertaining to or resembling a bat or bats," from bat (n.2) + -y (2). The slang sense of "nuts, crazy" is attested from 1903, from the colloquial expression (to have) bats in (one's) belfry "not be right in the head" (1899).

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