Bats
Bats adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.
Usage example: by film's end it's obvious that faded movie star Norma Desmond is completely bats
Odd
Odd adjective - Being one of a pair or set without a corresponding mate.
Both words in one sentence
- Odd Name Out: In the Shooting Stars series, no one bats an eyelid at girls named "Cinnamon", "Honey" and "Ice" ... yet Rose is the one who gets teased for having a weird name!
Source: Creator / V. C. Andrews -
Mossflower's bats are perfectly nice, help the heroes, and speak with an odd nervous tic, nervous tic, nervous tic... This is explained by Word of God as the bats having spent their entire lives listening to their voices echo in the caves they live in, so now they provide their own echo.
Source: Bat out of Hell - The concept of "aether" instead of the void of space was scientifically accurate at the time of his writing—but Science Marched On and now the Mi-go using space-wings to fly like hideous fungoid bats seems a bit odd.
Source: Shown Their Work / Literature
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