单词 | to be cracked about or on |
释义 | > as lemmasto be cracked about or on 5. Of the brain, mind, etc.: Unsound, impaired, somewhat deranged. Of a person: Unsound in mind, slightly insane, crazy. to be cracked about or on, to be infatuated with. (Now colloquial.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad maddish1573 skyred1581 cracked1610 conundrumed1629 touchy-headed1666 touched1672 half-witted1712 maddy1719 Fifish1821 cracky1850 not all there1864 mattoid1891 tetched1930 as daft (mad, etc.) as a brush1932 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)] loveOE paramoura1500 to love with1597 to be sweet on (upon)1740 to be cracked about or on1874 to be stuck on1878 mash1881 to be shook on1888 to go dingy on1904 to fall for ——1906 lurve1908 to have or get a crush on1913 to be soppy on1918 to have a pash for (or on)1922 to have a case on1928 to be queer for1941 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists xxvii. 68 That which this man was wont so oft to obiect to his brother (a crack't braine). 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Estropié de caboche, ou de ceruelle, frantick, witlesse, braine-sicke, brain-crackt. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §162. 203 Would you not think him a little crack'd? 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy ii. i You are as studious as a crack'd Chymist. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 490 [Johnson:] I never could see why Sir Roger is represented as a little cracked. 1825 S. Woodworth Forest Rose 29 Poor fellow! He is a little crack'd I calculate. 1844 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 29 I must have been cracked to have written it, for I have no evidence. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School iii. 54 He's an elegant fellow. All the girls are cracked about him,—perfectly cracked! 1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. ii. 49 They were cracked, but as it has been remarked, the crack let in light. 1960 Spectator 1 July 15/2 I brought myself to carry the English mistress's books—this was..usually done by girls who were ‘cracked’ on this woman or that. 1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree iv. 40 It was almost a social obligation to be ‘cracked’ on someone. 1968 Listener 29 Aug. 278/2 I suppose all writers of children's classics have been cracked, or at least extremely weird, One respects their crackedness as a rare endowment. < as lemmas |
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