batshit
/ˈbæt.ʃɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, suggested Cleverly had previously privately referred to the Rwanda plan as “batshit”, a jibe not explicitly denied by Cleverly."
- "Don't take any courses from that professor. She's completely batshit."
- "And what the fuck are you doing on TV anyhow? You know I get calls from back home every fuckin day, they think you went batshit!"
- "Those subpoenas went out today! The front office is gonna go batshit!"
- "When we heard about it he went batshit nuts."
Etymology
Presumably from batty (“crazy”), itself from earlier have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Possibly influenced by or derived from apeshit, particularly in phrase go apeshit.