batty vs cuckoo

batty

adj
  • Mad, crazy, silly. 

noun
  • The buttocks or anus. 

  • A homosexual man. 

cuckoo

adj
  • Crazy; not sane. 

noun
  • The cuckoo clock itself. 

  • The sound of that particular bird. 

  • A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest). 

  • Someone who is crazy. 

  • Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call. 

  • The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks. 

verb
  • To make the call of a cuckoo. 

  • To repeat something incessantly. 

How often have the words batty and cuckoo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )