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loopy, a.|ˈluːpɪ|
[f. loop n.1 + -y.]
1. Full of loops; characterized by loops.
1856Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 425 Many a hand have I seen with many characteristics of beauty in it—some loopy, some dashy. 1885W. F. Crafts Sabb. for Man (ed. 7) 109 Such loopy laws net no one. The big fish break them and the small ones creep through. 1890H. M. Stanley Darkest Africa II. xxviii. 236 It is a loopy,..crooked stream. 1902Westm. Gaz. 19 June 3/2 A loopy sort of braid.
2. Sc. ? Crafty, deceitful.
1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xx, When I tauld him how this loopy lad, Alan Fairford, had served me, he said I might bring an action on the case.
3. slang. Crazy, ‘cracked’.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 147 Loopy, silly, daft. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall i. xiii. 145 He'll get off on a plea of insanity. Loopy, you know. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. 40 One does not want a loopy colleague when embarked upon so distinctly rummy an investigation as the present. 1957I. Cross God Boy (1958) vi. 44 Honestly, the pair of them were looking at me as though I was loopy. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot iv. 88 ‘I will not waste my breath arguing with loopy Louie,’ replied Mrs Jolley. 1970New Yorker 15 Aug. 68/2 The wife..is mad neither in the sense of loopy nor in the sense of furious. 1973A. Hunter Gently French xiv. 125 He was loopy over her. If she said jump, he'd fall off a cliff.
Add: Hence ˈloopiness n. colloq., craziness, insanity.
1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xvi. 239 The Peke..knew Sir Roderick Glossop well, her cousin Lionel having been treated by him for some form of loopiness. 1987Times 16 May 18/2 Many regard his behaviour, at the least, as eccentricity tending to loopiness. |