Citations:batfowl

literal

 * 1822, Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, volume 3, page 45:
 * "Is it your fashion to go a shooting at this time o' night? Why, this is but a time for bat-fowling."

figurative
[...] paralyzed and batfowled by the light I tried to see through. "You the landlord?" I said panting heavily, hopeful that I could reason with the most belligerent slumlord.
 * 1979, William Kelly, The Tyree Legend:
 * Grove was standing in the corner between the witness stand and the jury box, just beneath TC Duquesne's batfowled blink. And the young District Attorney was regarding me with a most blatantly malevolent eye.
 * 2002, Xichel, Delicate Relations, page 77: