| 单词 | to hunt the loon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hunt the loon b. In phrases with loon's (see quots.). Also frequently as crazy as a loon (in reference to its actions in escaping from danger and its wild cry) and variants; so, as drunk as a loon; to hunt the loon (see quot. 1880). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] dizzyc825 unwisec825 redelessOE unwittyc1000 daftlikec1175 witlessc1175 canga1225 adoted?c1225 cangun?c1225 egedec1225 cangeda1250 foola1250 snepea1250 aerwittec1275 sotlyc1275 unslyc1275 unwitterc1275 unwilya1300 nicec1300 goosishc1374 unskilfulc1374 follyc1380 lewdc1380 mis-feelinga1382 dottlec1390 foltedc1390 peevishc1400 fona1425 fonnishc1425 foliousa1450 foolisha1450 daft?c1450 doitedc1450 dotyc1450 daffish1470 insapientc1470 gucked?a1500 wanwittya1500 furious1526 insipient1528 seelya1529 dawish?1529 foolage1545 momish1546 base-wittedc1547 stultitiousa1549 follifulc1550 senseless1565 mopish1568 fondish1579 unsensiblea1586 fondly1587 dizzardly1594 follial1596 featlessc1598 fopperly1599 gowkeda1605 inept1604 simple1604 anserine1607 foppish1608 silly ass1608 unsage1608 wisdomless1608 fool-beggeda1616 Gotham1621 noddy1645 badot1653 dosser-headed1655 infrunite1657 nonsensicalc1661 slight1663 sappy1670 datelessa1686 noddy-peaked1694 nizy1709 dottled1772 gypit1804 shay-brained1806 folly-stricken1807 fool-like1811 goosy1811 spoony1813 niddle-noddle1821 gumptionless1823 daftish1825 anserous1826 as crazy as a loon1830 spoonish1833 cheese-headed1836 dotty1860 fool-fool1868 noodly1870 dilly1873 gormless1883 daffy1884 monkey-doodle1886 mosy1887 jay1891 pithecanthropic1897 peanut-headed1906 dinlo1907 boob1911 goofy1921 ding-a-ling1935 jerky1944 jerk1947 jerkish1948 pointy-headed1950 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 nerkish1975 numpty1992 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1830 Kentucky Intelligencer (Flemingsburg) 29 May 4 Patton informed me that McLaughlin had just gone from Elizabethville, and was ‘drunk as a loon’. 1833 Lett. President's Tour by Major Jack Downing xvii. 64 I saw thru' it in a minute, and made it all as strait as a loon's leg. 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 110 He begun to sing out like a loon for us to come and take him. 1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. i. xi. 129 After tramposing for twenty-four hours on a stretch, with not even a loon's nap at the end of it. 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 83 Why, you're both as crazy as loons! 1848 J. Jones Sketches Trav. 102 A body what never seed a opery before would swar they was every one either drunk or crazy as loons. 1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Harte & ‘Twain’ Sk. Sixties (1926) 163 Our reserve..came filing down the street as drunk as loons. 1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 31 Miss Lois had been hunting the loon with a hand-net—a Northern way of phrasing the wearing of the willow. 1888 C. D. Ferguson Experiences of Forty-niner ix. 121 The next morning Costler was as crazy as a loon..the mountain fever had attacked him. 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary vi. 57 You're as crazy as a loon. 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xxiv. 398 Jesus, I'm drunk as a loon. I'm drunk, Kelly. Drunk. 1951 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xv. 66 Crazy as a loon. < as lemmas |
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