batchy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An apartment consisting mainly of one large room which is the living room, dining room, and bedroom combined.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It’s batchy to get married at eighteen."
- "“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.”"
- "[…] 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."
- "“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!”"
- "He’d seen a great deal older and more seasoned men than that lot go batchy through fatigue or some inexplicable, inner nervous flaw."
Etymology
From bachelor + -y.