Batchy

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.

Well, they argue until in the end Brackley find himself holding on to Teena suitcase and they on the way to the little batchy he have in Golders Green at the time.

For the batchies, Dr. Gieseler was on the firing line, but he weakened toward the end, after having his opponents at his mercy, and let the married men clout the ball all over the lot.