Preposition: as

• cake: Batty as a fruit cake probably but adorable all the same.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: One of the most delightful aspects of Daphne's charm was her aura of slightly batty femininity.

• completely: Converting that to " should of " drives many of us completely batty.

• plain: The Six Nations is what counts and this campaign has been just plain batty.

• absolutely: Absolutely batty England cricketers have had a great start against Pakistan on the 1st day of the Test.

• sometimes: Find Me On Air Monday to Saturday 10 am â 2 pm Describe Your Show Happy, chatty and sometimes batty!

• so: Never have the English seemed quite so batty in their attitudes to animals: slavishly mercenary and yet still capable of intermittent deep sentimentality.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• drive: The traffic is already starting to drive some people batty.

Modifies a noun

• boy: Details of ' Dealing with Difference ' Dealing with Difference Scene 1: A - Alright you batty boy?

• woman: Some batty old woman decided to hit me with a walking stick in a train station washroom.

• idea: And yet even quite intelligent people go along with the batty idea that ' it must be a good thing, surely ' .

• man: We all heard da cusses ' bout da batty man and dikes get me!

• lady: That I've come because some batty old lady asked me to?

• theory: How different this is from the situation among ufologists, with their batty theories, their occult dabblings and loony conferences.

Used with adjective complement

• go: Get a whole flock and you'll go batty in no time.