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crack-brained, a.|ˈkrækbreɪnd| Formerly cracked-, crackt-brained. [f. prec. + -ed.] Having the brain cracked or crazy, crazy-pated, impaired in intellect.
1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 209 He would..have called him idle head, cracked-brained, fool. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 15 Crack-brain'd Menippus. 1671Glanvill Disc. M. Stubbe 28 A crackt-brain'd Noddy. 1739Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 212 They always took me to be a little crack-brained at Oxford. 1843Prescott Mexico I. 214 One of those crack-brained wits,—half wit, half fool. 1862Trench Mirac. Introd. 82 A certain crack-brained enthusiasm for..allegorical interpretation. |