Entry: batsoid (adj.)
In context: "...E.T.A. senior Ted Schacht has taken Mary Esther Thode's perennially batsoid 'The Personal is the Political is the Psychopathological: the Politics of Contemporary Psychopathological Double-Binds..."
Definition: A neologism, but I think I can safely say, without looking it up, that it means of a less than sound mind. Right?
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 306
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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I interpreted it as being "bat" like based on the earlier part of the same paragraph that states "protectors are ... kind of bats".
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