schizon.adj.
/ˈskɪtsəʊ/, U.S. /ˈskɪtsoʊ/ slang.
A. n.
= schizophrenic n.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > schizophrenia > person
schizophrene1925
schizophrenic1926
schizo1945
schiz1955
1945 N. Balchin Mine Own Executioner vi. 92 He just sank back into that queer not-really-there mood that schizos have.
1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman vii. 87 Let's assume a split personality..a schizo, as they say nowadays.
1961 J. I. M. Stewart Man who won Pools iii. 203 He might have been a schizo..for all the tie-up there seemed to be between the Phil of this rational conversation and the Phil who wanted Jean Canaway.
1972 ‘L. Egan’ Paper Chase xii. 194 He had a long history of violence and was diagnosed as a schizo.
B. adj.
= schizophrenic adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > schizophrenia
schizophrenic1912
schizo1957
schiz1960
schitzy1968
1957 M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday x. 120 I think he must have a split mind—be schizo or something.
1958 A. Huxley Let. 16 Dec. (1969) 858 I'm glad to hear that your schizo research goes forward satisfactorily.
1960 Harper's Bazaar Aug. 50/2 He had gone stereo in April... Cheaper than going schizo.
1977 J. Aiken Last Movement v. 89 Gertrude was a kind of belle Otèro-cum-Phaedra..and Hamlet perfectly epicene and schizo.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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