crazyn.
/ˈkreɪzi/, U.S. /ˈkreɪzi/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A mad or eccentric person.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
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March harec1500
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Jack o' Bedlam1528
Tom o' Bedlam1569
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Tom1575
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fruitcake1942
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barm-pot1951
nutcake1953
nutter1958
nutcase1959
nut job1959
meshuga1962
nutsy1964
headcase1965
nutball1968
headbanger1973
nutso1975
wacko1977
nut bar1978
mentalist1990
1867 W. L. Goss Soldier's Story 30 I was addressed as ‘old crazy’ by my companions, and told to keep still.
1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. 46 They take some crazies at the State's expense.
1945 G. Millar Maquis i. 6 There were many crazies in the organisation. It said much for the officers at the top that the crazies were permitted.
1969 Guardian 22 Feb. 2/6 There's no leadership at all. All this is being done by the street crazies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
crazyadj.
/ˈkreɪzi/, U.S. /ˈkreɪzi/ 1. Full of cracks or flaws; damaged, impaired, unsound; liable to break or fall to pieces; frail, ‘shaky’. (Now usually of ships, buildings, etc.)
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective]
undisposedc1380
sicka1425
shrewdc1430
crazy1583
unsound1617
vitiated1620
depravate1665
depraveda1807
sickly1826
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety
seely1562
crazy1583
ramshackled1675
creachy1715
rickly1715
rickety1741
palsified1775
shackling1790
ramshackling1815
paralytic1824
rackety1824
rattletrap1824
cocklety1828
ramshackle1830
shickery?1833
shackly1843
shattery1844
shaky1850
ramshackly1857
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ruckly1866
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palsied1889
rattle-bag1896
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bockety1902
ruggy1929
rickety-rackety1931
ropy1942
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dviiv If Aeolus with his blasts, or Neptune with his stormes, chaunce to hit vppon the crasie bark.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. C Or be their pipes vntunable and craesie?
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 16 As a crazie pitcher which is vnfit to hold water.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 106 With a crazy ship.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 375 The house is crazy..and will not stand very long. View more context for this quotation
1844 C. Dickens Let. 16 Nov. (1977) IV. 219 The court was full of crazy coaches.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 336 An old crazy ship.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased
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icky-boo1920
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ropy1945
crappy1956
hanging1971
sick as a parrot1982
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1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 4 Remove not from the place where you be, sithence you are weake and crasie.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 624/2 The King somewhat crasie, and keeping his Chamber.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. v. 48 Some better place, Fitter for sicknesse, and for crasie age. View more context for this quotation
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 426. ⁋2 I find my Frame grown crasie with perpetual Toil and Meditation.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 290 By a guarded mode of living..a very crazy constitution is frequently piloted into old age.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. ii. 33 An indulgence conceded to his little crazy body.
3. figurative and transferred.† b. Broken down in estate; ruined, bankrupt.
a. Unsound, impaired, ‘shaky’; frail, infirm.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmed or affected detrimentally
annoyedc1330
infectc1384
palledc1390
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hinderedc1440
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vitiated1660
crippled1674
wounded1692
etiolated1847
injured1857
murdered1876
dicked-up1967
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 3 Fraile and crasie mortall men, remembring wel their owne infirmitie.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 43 To keep up the floting carcas of a crazie, and diseased Monarchy.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 29 Misdoubting what issue those his crasie evidences would find at the Common law.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 60 The old And crazy earth has had her shaking fits More frequent.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty
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peeled?a1513
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poverty-stricken?1786
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distressed1844
out at elbows1885
poverished1900
wiped1977
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [adjective] > going bankrupt > bankrupt
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bust1964
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 29 There Sneaks a Hunger-starv'd Usurer in quest of a Crasie Citizen.
4.
a. Of unsound mind; insane, mad, demented, ‘cracked’. Often used by way of exaggeration in sense: Distracted or ‘mad’ with excitement, vehement desire, perplexity, etc., extremely eager, enthusiastic, etc. to go crazy; to be crazy about or for (a person), to be infatuated with, to be in love with.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
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(to go) off one's dot1883
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over the edge1929
round the bend1929
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wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective] > extremely
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buggy1913
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nutso1973
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adjective] > eager > over-eager or over-willing
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1617 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 19 He was noted to be crazy and distempered before.
1674 S. Butler Epist. to Sidrophel in Hudibras (new ed.) ii. 392 'Tis in vain To tamper with your Crazy Brain.
1732 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 17–24 July 1/1 Lord, Child..are you crazy?
1779 F. Burney Diary & Lett. May (1842) I. 208 Mr. Murphy is crazy for your play..do pray let me run away with the first act.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 47 The Pilot's boy, Who now doth crazy go, Laugh'd loud and long.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 271 All the world..were crazy to have their fortunes told.
1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 17 But so crazy all for Tiptree wor, They coodn't thussins stay.
1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. i. 24 Lord George Gordon, a crazy fanatic, led the London mob to burn down Newgate.
1859 in Chicago Tribune (1929) 11 Oct. viii. 1 I am crazy to have a carpet like Mr. Laflins.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens IV. xix. ii. 7 Linked in a marriage without love..driving each other crazy with..mutual spite.
1883 J. Hay Bread-winners xi. 175 I see you are crazy to go and talk to Miss Dallas.
1892 H. Dacre Daisy Bell 5 Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you!
1895 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 294 They were crazy that I should talk about the celebrated people I have known.
1898 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 447/2 He's crazy over this girl.
1904 R. L. McCardell Show Girl & Friends 35 You know everybody is just crazy about octets?
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 18 I love you. I'm crazy about you.
1926 J. Black You can't Win iii. 19 Well, if you're so crazy about a job, I'll make one for you.
1929 M. Lief Hangover 235 He was crazy in love with her and one moonlit night he proposed to her.
1930 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 21/1 At Royal Wimbledon..he went ‘crazy’, to use an inoffensive and common golfing phrase. His figures to the turn..a total of 30.
1932 Grace Perkins (title) Boy crazy.
1936 E. C. Bentley & H. W. Allen Trent's Own Case vii. 72 We were talking about Eunice Faviell..and the way so many men go crazy about her.
1949 P. G. Wodehouse Mating Season iii. 28 And the unfortunate part of it all is, Bertie, that I'm crazier about him than ever.
1962 J. Ludwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 252 A Toronto deb-type, gorgeous, crazy for Jimmy, hot and burning.
b. Of things, actions, etc.: Showing derangement of intellect; insane, mad.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of actions or things
frenetica1529
fanatic1533
frenetical1548
insane1842
crazy1855
swivel-eyed1983
1855 H. Melville Piazza Tales (1856) 425 Hopelessly infected with the craziest chimeras of his age.
1859 Sat. Rev. 7 471/1 Crazy theories.
18.. J. G. Whittier Cassandra Southwick ix By crazy fancies led.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 Oct. 5/1 The crazy wildness of his appeal.
c. like crazy = like mad at mad adj. Phrases 1. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adverb]
rageously1486
violently1518
franticly1549
ragingly1549
wildly1593
turbulently1602
impotently1621
transportedly1652
like wild1674
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madly1756
seethingly1887
like crazy1924
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xxiv. 288 She has been going an awful pace, tearing around like crazy.
1957 J. Osborne Entertainer v. 35 There she was, beating them with her umbrella like crazy.
1964 Punch 24 June 929/1 They're wooing us like crazy.
1968 Punch 28 Feb. 309/1 Here were all those guys consuming like crazy and having to be regularly restocked.
d. slang (originally U.S.). (a) Of music, esp. jazz: unrestrained, wild; exciting. (b) Hence as a term of approbation: excellent, admirable, satisfying. Cf. cool adj. 8b.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
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licking1648
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trimming1778
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ripe1923
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righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
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sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
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together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
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rad1976
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death1979
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fabbo1984
mega1985
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of
Chicagoan1861
bad1897
hot1918
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soft1921
low-down1922
sweet1924
barrel-house1926
New Orleans1926
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crazy1927
dirty1927
hotcha1930
jungle1935
solid1935
traditional jazz1935
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gutty1939
riffy1939
jivey1944
Kansas City1946
cool1948
West Coast1949
far-out1954
nutty1955
swinging1955
mainstream1957
Afro-Latin1958
1927 Melody Maker June 573/2 Leath has established her reputation as a..first-class artist in ‘Crazy Words, Crazy Tune’.
1933 Melody Maker 2 Sept. 2 Arthur Roseberry Goes All ‘Crazy’.
1935 Hot News Apr. 13/1 He is a crazy player, and a crazier singer.
1935 Hot News Apr. 13/1 ‘Jamaica Shout’ is, I think, the craziest record.
1935 Hot News Apr. 13/1 Where musicians are concerned..if I say a man is crazy you may be sure that I think he is very, very good.
1953 Time 14 Sept. 68/3 The latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where ‘cool’ means good, ‘crazy’ means wonderful.
1956 New Yorker 8 Dec. 159 (advt.) Hi Fi can turn your bachelor apartment into a Harem..and the crazy part is you don't have to be an engineer to operate H. H. Scott components.
1959 Punch 14 Oct. 319 The swing-cats sway, the hipsters tap their feet As Victor pounds his low-down crazy beat.
1962 J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. iii. 274 She laughed. ‘Black Label [Scotch]?’ ‘Crazy.’
e. crazy like (or as) a fox: very cunning or shrewd. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > astute
oldOE
witterc1100
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crazy like (or as) a fox1935
1935 G. Lorimer & S. Lorimer Heart Specialist vi. 164 ‘Is she drunk or crazy and is she a giraffe?..’ ‘Crazy as a fox,’ I said glumly.
1944 S. J. Perelman (title) Crazy like a fox.
1967 M. Procter Rogue Running xxv. 165 ‘Crazy,’ Martineau mused. ‘Crazy like a fox. And as hard to catch.’
1969 D. Bagley Spoilers x. 294 I'm crazy like a fox... How much did I win from you..?
f. In the colloquial phrase crazy, mixed-up (kid, person, etc.), descriptive of one whose mind is driven distracted by conflicting and unresolved emotions. Also used of a confused situation.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] > confused person
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crazy, mixed-up (kid, person, etc.)1955
1955 Melody Maker 30 July 6/2 Full of the most peculiar phrases..something else is a ‘crazy, mixed-up creep’.
1956 Punch 28 Nov. 653 We live in an age in which the Common Man is apt also to be a crazy, mixed-up personality.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xi. 106 As they say in the films, I'm just a crazy mixed-up kid.
5. Used (after crazy quilt n. at Compounds 2) to denote a garden walk or pavement of irregular pieces of flat stone or tile, esp. in crazy paving; so (as a back-formation) crazy-pave v. trans., crazy-paved adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > walk
alleyc1405
alurea1450
mount1591
vista1671
crazy paving1923
tapis vert1960
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [adjective] > of garden walk: irregularly paved
crazy1923
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > paving > types of paved work
pavementa1300
pavagec1376
paving1448
paithmentc1480
plainstones1611
pitching1693
pitchwork1758
pebble paving1819
pave1835
slabbing1893
concrete1911
crazy paving1923
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved > in specific way
pitched1611
herringbone1700
crazy1923
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [adjective] > provided with garden walks > specific surface
greensward1633
crazy1923
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground > with specific surface
gravel-walk1664
crazy paving1923
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave in specific way
pitch1550
crazy-pave1960
1923 Daily Mail 13 Jan. 11 Stone walks, either crazy or rectangular.
1923 Daily Mail 19 Feb. 6 Visitors will pass by old red brick and crazy paths to a sunk lawn.
1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xvi Under the blue tile..of the crazy-paving just by the rain-water butt.
1927 H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune, Please 173 Along the house was a terrace with crazy pavement in which saxifrage grew.
1927 H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune, Please 223 Mrs. Pemberton's garden was a pleasant place of crazy paving and rock plants.
1952 E. R. Janes Flower Garden 36 Probably the best form of crazy paving is the broken paving stones obtainable in some towns when stone pavements are replaced by asphalt.
1960 News Chron. 22 Apr. 8/6 Jimmy Gold is..getting ready to crazy-pave his front garden.
1963 Times 25 Feb. 14/5 Almost every room in the house has exposed oak beam ceilings and there is a small crazy-paved garden.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
crazy-headed adj.
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1716 J. Long Assize Serm. Govt. 3 Crazy-headed people.
crazy-pate adj.
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1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 61 The crazy-pate banker.
b.
crazy-sensible adj.
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1923 D. H. Lawrence Let. 24 Sept. (1962) II. 754 California is..sort of crazy-sensible.
crazy-wayed adj.
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1957 J. Kerouac On the Road ii. viii. 164 So amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed.
crazy-witty adj.
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xcix. 484 He's too crazy-witty for my sanity.
C2.
crazy ant n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > unspecified types
musk-ant1671
velvet ant1748
soldier1781
raffle ant1793
Amazon-ant1824
green tree ant1845
brown ant1868
harvesting ant1873
Amazon1880
crazy ant1885
crazy ant1905
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 132 Another curious variety is appropriately called the ‘crazy ant’. He always seems to be in a violent hurry..moving forwards, backwards, and sideways in the most purposeless and insane manner.
crazy Betty n. (see quot.: cf. crayse n.).
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1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 24 Where to find the first ‘crazy Betties’..These are the marsh marigolds.
crazy bone n. U.S. the ‘funny-bone’.
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1880 Webster's Dict. Suppl. Crazy-bone..so called on account of the intense pain produced when it receives a blow.
crazy flying n. aerobatics performed near the ground.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun]
aerobatics1915
crazy flying1922
split-arsing1931
1922 Flight 14 372/2 The next item was the extraordinary exhibition of ‘crazy’ flying..on a jazzified Avro.
1940 N. Monks Squadrons Up! 162 To lift that gold cup for the crazy-flying event.
Crazy Foam n. originally U.S. the name (proprietary in the U.S.) of a type of soap for children which is sold as pressurized foam in an aerosol container; also used as a plaything and for practical jokes.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > type of soap > specific
hard soap?a1425
oatmeal soapa1525
spatarent soap1526
Castile soap1631
Naples soapa1739
yellow soap1762
honey soap1772
curd soap1780
primrose soap1796
palm soap1821
Gallipoli soap1822
Windsor soap1822
Windsor1836
Venice soap1842
scum-soap1852
sand-soap1855
lime soap1857
marine soap1857
sassafras soap1860
carbolic soap1863
sulphur soap1894
opopanax soap1897
primrose1899
rock1903
carbolic1907
Crazy Foam1965
1965 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 Apr. tm84/1 Aerosol Corporation of America, Clifton, N.J. Filed Nov. 8, 1963. Crazy Foam. For bath soap in toy shaped container. First use Aug. 19, 1963.
1976 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 13 Dec. 11/2 (advt.) Bill's House of Jokes, Party Poppers, Crazy Foam, [etc.].
1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 131 Drunken youths covered in ‘crazy foam’ and factory girls wearing tinsel garlands paraded around the town singing carols.
crazy patchwork n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > patchwork > specific
crazy patchwork1885
1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 531/2 Alternate stripes of ‘crazy patchwork’ embroidered on crimson turcoman.
crazy quilt n. originally U.S. a patchwork quilt made of pieces of stuff of all kinds in fantastic patterns or without any order; also attributive and figurative; so crazy-work.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover > quilt > types of
leatherdoom1702
duvet1759
eiderdown1872
futon1875
plumeau1875
crazy quilt1886
puff1894
puffin1959
continental quilt1969
Doona1973
quillow1989
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 6/2 What is generally called ‘crazy quilt’ in the States and patchwork in England.
1888 Boston Evening Jrnl. 20 June A Washington letter gives a clever sketch of the conversation which recently took place at the house of a matron who receives a hundred or two of people on the afternoon of ‘her day’. ‘Crazy quilt conversation’, the hostess declared it to be.
1890 Cent. Mag. May 47/1 As uncertain in marking as the pattern of a crazy-quilt.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed 49 The present system is a mere crazy-quilt, quite unsatisfactory in a thousand ways.
1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now xxii. 118 Machiavelli's emotions were as various as the colours of a crazy quilt.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 765/1 Can anything but crazy-quilt legislation emerge from a chamber exposed to pressures such as these?
1963 Economist 28 Sept. 1121/3 The crazy-quilt redevelopment of Lower Manhattan.
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crazy ant n. any of several ants that exhibit very fast or erratic movement, esp. Prenolepsis longicornis, native to tropical regions.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > unspecified types
musk-ant1671
velvet ant1748
soldier1781
raffle ant1793
Amazon-ant1824
green tree ant1845
brown ant1868
harvesting ant1873
Amazon1880
crazy ant1885
crazy ant1905
1905 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 21 111 Prenolepsis longicornis... This tropicopolitan species which is common in New Providence..but very sporadic on the eastern coast of Andros..,occurs in houses and is known as the ‘crazy ant’ on account of its singular erratic movements.
1915 C. A. Ealand Insects & Man vi. 245 The Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis... The ant has received its popular name from the fact that Argentina is believed to be one, at least, of the countries in which it is native. At first it was called the ‘New Orleans ant’..; other names which have been suggested and dropped..are the ‘crazy ant’, the ‘tropical ant’, and the ‘pernicious ant’.
1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies xxi. 447/2 Paratrechina longicornis, the swift-running hormiga loca (crazy ant) found in tropical cities around the world, is an example of a class of species I have come to call ‘opportunists’.
1983 Listener 27 Oct. 16/3 Another new import is the long-legged ant, which is also called the Crazy Ant, which has appropriately turned up in a psychiatric hospital.
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crazy golf n. golf played in an unusual manner or on a novel course; spec. (chiefly British) a putting game played on a small, usually concrete, course, each hole of which involves negotiating a novelty obstacle; cf. miniature golf n. at miniature n. and adj. Compounds 2, Tom Thumb Golf at Tom Thumb n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [noun]
miniature golf1890
clock golf1899
best ball1920
putt-putt1922
midget golf1930
crazy golf1936
minigolf1950
mini-putt1971
pitch-and-putt1972
1936 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 2 Sept. 11/7 Women members..were to assemble at the course today attired in unique costumes for the ‘crazy’ golf tournament.
1948 Compl. Home Entertainer 416 Crazy Golf. This game requires more preparation, but it will be worth the trouble.
1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own iii. v. 203 Mal was in defiant mood as he strode along the bottom of the crazy golf course and on to the frowzy sprawl of grass leading down to the dump.
2002 List (Glasgow & Edinb.) 4 July 94/1 Crazy golf has always been an odd phenomenon, peculiarly British in character and reminiscent of faded seaside towns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
crazyadv.
slang (chiefly U.S.).
Extremely; ‘madly’.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
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micklelyeOE
swith971
hardOE
un-i-fohOE
sevenfoldlOE
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innerlyc1330
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sore1474
horriblec1475
vehemently1483
outrageous1487
done?a1513
exquisite1529
strangely1532
exceeding1535
exceedingly1535
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vengeable1542
vengeably?1550
extremelya1554
monstrous1569
thrice1579
amain1587
extremea1591
damnably1598
fellc1600
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exquisitely1603
damnedly1607
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damnablea1616
impensively1620
excellingly1621
main1632
fearful1634
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consumed1707
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nation1771
shockingly1777
deuced1779
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dogged1819
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shocking1831
tremendously1832
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terribly1833
fearfully1835
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thundering1853
frighteninglyc1854
raring1854
hell's own1863
goldarned1866
goddamned1870
doggone1871
acutely1872
whooping1874
stupidly1878
everlastingly1879
hideously1882
densely1883
storming1883
good and1885
thunderingly1885
crazy1887
tremendous1887
madly1888
goldarn1892
howling1895
murderously1916
rasted1919
goddam1921
bitchingly1923
Christly1923
bitching1929
falling-down1930
lousy1932
appallingly1937
stratospherically1941
Christ almighty1945
effing1945
focking1956
dagnab1961
drop-dead1980
hella1987
totes2006
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 9 July 2/2 He was crazy drunk in a saloon one night.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands i. 9 I'm just crazy gone on 'er.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel xi. 175 And here I was crazy anxious.
1957 A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xv. 176 Llorente is rabioso, crazy keen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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