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

• 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:

[...] 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.