zanyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈzeɪni/, U.S.

/ˈzeɪni/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s zani, zanie, 1600s zane, zanee, zanni, (plural zaneese), 1700s zaney.

Etymology: < French zani, or its source Italian zani, zanni name of servants who act as clowns in the ‘Commedia dell' arte’.Originally the Venetian and Lombardic form of Gianni = Giovanni John (compare Zanipolo the title of the church of St. John and St. Paul in Venice), used as an appellative for a porter (or the like) from the mountain country of Bergamo who had taken service in a seaside town. In the following the French word is apparently intended:a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fij I. Iebit avow mon companion. G. Ihar vow pleadge pety Zawne. I. Can you speake Frenche? here is a trimme colier by this day.

A. n.

1. A comic performer attending on a clown, acrobat, or mountebank, who imitates his master's acts in a ludicrously awkward way; a clown's or mountebank's assistant, a merry-andrew, jack-pudding; sometimes used vaguely for a professional jester or buffoon in general. Now Historical or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian

jugglerc1175

foolc1300

jangler1303

fool sagec1330

ribald1340

ape-ward1362

japer1377

sage fool1377

harlotc1390

disporter?a1475

jocular?a1475

joculatora1500

jester?1518

idiot1526

scoffer1530

sporter1531

dizzardc1540

vice1552

antic1564

bauble-bearer1568

scoggin1579

buffoon1584

pleasant1595

zany1596

baladine1599

clown1600

fiddle1600

mimic1601

ape-carrier1615

mime1616

mime-man1631

merry man1648

tomfool1650

pickle-herring1656

badine1670

puddingc1675

merry-andrew1677

mimical1688

Tom Tram1688

Monaghan1689

pickled herring1711

ethologist1727

court-foola1797

Tom1817

mimer1819

fun-maker1835

funny man1839

mimester1846

comic1857

comedian1860

jokesman1882

comique1886

Joey1896

tummler1938

alternative comedian1981

Andrew-

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > professional > assistant

zany1596

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie M iv b Here marcheth forth Scurilitie,..the first time he lookt out of Italy into England, it was in the habite of a Zani.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 463 Some carry tale, some please-man, some sleight saine [1623 Zanie],..That..knowes the trick To make my Lady laugh.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. i. sig. Lii^v Hee's like a Zani to a Tumbler, That tries trickes after him to make men laugh.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 85 I protest I take these Wisemen..no better then the fooles Zanies .

1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 2 Cheynell among the visitors, is a mountebanke extraordinary with 4 zanyes.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 104 They go..in the disguise of a Zanni or Pantaloon to ventilate their fopperies.

1682 New News fr. Tory-Land 7 He may serve for some Zany to a Mountebank, to jest off Medicines for the Tooth~ach to the Rabble in Southwark.

1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal lxix A mountebank-doctor, and his zany.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough vii. 95 There was a time, when we beheld the Quack, On public Stage, the licenc'd Tribe attack; He made his labour'd Speech with poor parade; And then a laughing Zany lent him aid.

1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey vi. 75 Those who had flattered him most when a king, were the loudest in their contempt, now that he was the court-zany.

1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed viii Everybody is good to the Court-fool, the zany!

2. Hence in transferred and allusive uses, with various shades of meaning:

a. An attendant, follower, companion, assistant: almost always contemptuous (sometimes, hanger-on, parasite), and with direct reference to sense A. 1. Now rare or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > low, venal, or unscrupulous

ribaldc1330

zany1601

myrmidon1647

henchman1875

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite

clienta1393

lick-dishc1440

maunche present1440

scambler?a1513

smell-feast1519

parasite1539

hanger-on1549

parasitaster1552

waiter at the table1552

lick-trencher1571

hang-by1579

shadow1579

trencher-fly1590

trencher-friend1590

fawnguest1592

pot-hunter1592

lick-spigot1599

trencherman1599

shark1600

tub-hunter1600

zany1601

lick-box1611

by-hangera1626

cosherer1634

shirk1639

panlicker1641

clientelary1655

tantony1659

led friend1672

sponger1677

fetcher and carrier1751

myrmidon1800

trencher-licker1814

onhanger1821

tag-tail1835

sponge1838

lick-ladle1849

lick-platter1853

sucker1856

freeloader1933

bludger1938

ligger1977

joyrider1990

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E3 I pray thee be acquainted with my two Zanies [1616 iii. i. 60 hang-by's] heere.

1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E2 Lady Imperia (the Curtezans Zani).

c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 136 Ye Aristippian zanies,..Leave off at last your poysning honnied speach.

1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar iv. i Protean fortune, and her zany, warre.

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 50 The Directory, and the geud Covenant, (its zanee).

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xv. 37 A vagrant Zany, of no certain Manger, Who knew not, ere he din'd, or Friend or Stranger.

1746–7 T. Smollett Advice 181 To shine confess'd her zany and her tool, And fall by what I rose, low ridicule.

1760 H. Walpole Let. 24 Nov. in Corr. (1941) IX. 325 On the address Pitt and his zany Beckford quarreled.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are Ye that Sow 24 The Mountebanks and Zanies of Patriotism.

1880 Q. Rev. Jan. 14 St. John was not content to be a mere zany, he aspired to rival his master as a wit, and to outstrip him as a libertine.

1911 Athenæum 25 Mar. 343/3 To figure as a zany of a peer.

†b. An imitator, mimic; esp. a poor, bad, feeble, or ludicrous imitator. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > one who or that which imitates > badly or poorly

zany1606

mimic1624

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person

didapper1589

antic1597

zany1606

balatron1623

figure of fun1811

sketch1917

Herbert1960

1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London v. sig. E4 An Ape is Zani to a man, doing ouer those trickes..which hee sees done before him.

1627 M. Drayton To H. Reynolds in Battaile Agincourt 206 As th' English, Apes and very Zanies be Of euery thing, that they doe heare and see.

1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b3^v They are for persecuting Horace and Virgil, in the persons of their Successors... Some of their little Zanies yet go farther; for they are Persecutors even of Horace himself.

1730 Flying Post 22 Dec. Their little Zanies about the Country have learnt their Cant.

c. One who resembles, or acts like, a merry-andrew or buffoon; one who plays the fool for the amusement, or so as to be the laughing-stock, of others. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon

sporter1531

Owlglassc1560

scogginist1593

scurr1596

hobby-horse1600

zany1606

buffoona1610

jack pudding?c1635

Owl-spieglea1637

droll1645

buffian1655

drollist1668

droller1676

merry-andrew1694

grotesque1864

harlequin1883

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. sig. D4^v Goe too you French Zanies you.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Hypocrite 4 What is a Hypocrite but a Player, the Zani of Religion?

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 202 Oh great Restorer of the good old Stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age!

1790 J. Wolcot Advice to Future Laureat xv I'll not be Zany to a King, not I.

1846 Eclectic Rev. June 662 Sydney Smith..was a West-end chapel preacher,..a lecturer in Albemarle-street, and Zany to Holland-house.

1925 Sunday at Home Nov. 91/2 He went capering about all his tasks with a zany-like glee.

1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 11 A burly wind playing the zany In fields of barleycorn.

1976 G. Langford (title) Death of the early morning hero. Episodes of a zany in love.

d. A fool, simpleton, ‘idiot’.‘Still dial.’ ( N.E.D.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]

boinarda1300

daffc1325

goky1377

nicea1393

unwiseman1400

totc1425

alphinc1440

dawc1500

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dawpatea1529

hoddypolla1529

noddy1534

kimec1535

coxcomb1542

sheep1542

sheep's head1542

goose1547

dawcock1556

nodgecock1566

peak-goosea1568

hottie tottie?c1570

Tom Towly1582

wittol1588

goose-cap1589

nodgecomb1592

ninny1593

chicken1600

fopdoodle16..

hoddy-noddy1600

hoddy-doddy1601

peagoose1606

fopster1607

nazold1607

nupson1607

wigeon1607

fondrel1613

simpleton1639

pigwidgeon1640

simpletonian1652

Tony1654

nizy1673

Simple Simon?1673

Tom Farthing1674

totty-head1680

cockcomb1684

cod1699

nikin1699

sap-pate1699

simpkin1699

mackninnya1706

gilly-gaupus?1719

noodle1720

sapskull1735

gobbin?1746

Judy1781

zanya1784

spoony1795

sap-head1798

spoon1799

gomerel1814

sap1815

neddy1818

milestone1819

sunket1823

sunketa1825

gawp1825

gawpy1825

gawpus1826

Tomnoddy1826

Sammy1828

tammie norie1828

Tommy1828

gom1834

noodlehead1835

nowmun1854

gum-sucker1855

flat-head1862

peggy1869

noodledum1883

jay1884

toot1888

peanut head1891

simp1903

sappyhead1922

Arkie1927

putz1928

steamer1932

jerk-off1939

drongo1942

galah1945

Charley1946

nong-nong1959

mouth-breather1979

twonk1981

a1784 S. Johnson in R. Cumberland Mem. (1806) I. 263 The lady asked me for no other purpose than to make a Zany of me.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Let. in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. (1897) I. xi. 241 The printers are awful zanies, they print erasures and corrections too, and other sins they commit of the utmost inhumanity.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. iii. 38 Whether Andrew was a genius, or whether he was a zany, was always a moot question.

1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. i A heaven for zanies and tom-fools!

B. adj.

(a) That is a zany, or characteristic of a zany; †imitative; clownish; foolish, idiotic. (b) Comically idiotic, crazily ridiculous.The adjectival use of the word (as if an adjective formed with -y suffix¹) is now the dominant one. In quot. 1938, ‘simple-minded’ (cf. sense A. 2d).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > apish, mocking, or mimicking

apish1579

mimical1610

zany1616

monkeyish1621

mimic1727

cod1895

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective]

weak1423

simple-hearted?c1425

good1480

innocent1548

plain-headeda1586

simple1604

green1605

zany1616

soft1621

ungifted1637

softly1652

half-witted1712

simple-minded1749

simpletonic1780

simpletonian1800

sawney1805

simpletonish1819

simply disposed1848

putty-headed1857

cabbage-looking1898

goonish1921

wally1922

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical

merryc1390

pleasant1553

comical1575

mowsome1596

zany1616

burlesque1656

humoursome1656

farce-like1681

foolish1691

farcical1715

amusive1727

farciful1731

funny1739

farcic1763

quizzical1785

quizzy1785

quizzish1792

rib-tickling1809

smileable1830

cocasse1868

priceless1907

skit1914

funny-ha-ha1916

gas1955

1616 R. Anton Philosophers Satyrs sig. C2 Like a gorgeous robe, Purl'd ore with natures Ape, and Zany-art.

1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage E 2 Nor Britaines Odcomb (Zanye braue Vlissis) In all his ambling saw the like as this is.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 176 He will make some of your zany squires shake in their shoes.

1890 H. Caine Bondman ii. ii Your zany doings have shut every other door against you.

1918 G. B. Shaw in Nation 22 June 308/2 Before Shakespear touched Hamlet there was a zany Hamlet who mopped and mowed.

1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch viii. 117 The gardener who was apparently zany, used to level his stick at an obelisk.

1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music v. 204 Sloppy Jalopy (UPA), a zany cartoon.

1959 House & Garden June 76 Luncheon-mats of the subtlest as well as the zaniest designs.

1978 J. Krantz Scruples xii. 349 Television shows that lean heavily on the brand of humor known as ‘zany’, consisting largely of sight gags and the sight of appealing people making cheerful fools of themselves.

1983 D. Cecil Portrait of Lamb ii. ii. 143 A sympathetic spirit able to appreciate his more characteristic and zany vein of humour.

Derivatives

ˈzanily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > comically or humorously

mirthfully1508

comically1581

drolly1662

funnily1749

farcicallya1779

ticklingly1898

pricelessly1934

zanily1958

1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) i. i. 11 In Central Park sea lions barked zanily at the sky.

1966 M. Laurence Jest of God ix. 170 I've..emptied the crucial and precious capsules out of my window, zanily.

1984 Financial Times 25 July 13/6 The play is a staple of the repertory and amateur theatre diet, and while it may not inspire to the zanily surreal heights of See How They Run or Madame Louise, Dighton is certainly a name worth conjuring with.

ˈzaniness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of

comicalness?1691

comicality1718

vis comica1757

drollness1823

funniness1836

farcicality1849

funniosity1920

zaniness1960

1960 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 6 Feb. 13/2 Ginsberg, for all his carefully cultivated (and natural) zaniness, is a writer far above Kerouac.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 602/2 His wider appeal owes much more to his modern zaniness and irreverence.

1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 111/1 Many of these forays into zaniness actually wind up involving mayhem or destruction of property.

1985 Listener 21 Mar. 28/3 How could anything with Jerry Lewis not fall into a comic range somewhere between surrealistic zaniness and childish destructiveness?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	zany
释义	zanyn.adj. Brit. /ˈzeɪni/, U.S. /ˈzeɪni/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s zani, zanie, 1600s zane, zanee, zanni, (plural zaneese), 1700s zaney. Etymology: < French zani, or its source Italian zani, zanni name of servants who act as clowns in the ‘Commedia dell' arte’.Originally the Venetian and Lombardic form of Gianni = Giovanni John (compare Zanipolo the title of the church of St. John and St. Paul in Venice), used as an appellative for a porter (or the like) from the mountain country of Bergamo who had taken service in a seaside town. In the following the French word is apparently intended:a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fij I. Iebit avow mon companion. G. Ihar vow pleadge pety Zawne. I. Can you speake Frenche? here is a trimme colier by this day. A. n. 1. A comic performer attending on a clown, acrobat, or mountebank, who imitates his master's acts in a ludicrously awkward way; a clown's or mountebank's assistant, a merry-andrew, jack-pudding; sometimes used vaguely for a professional jester or buffoon in general. Now Historical or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > professional > assistant zany1596 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie M iv b Here marcheth forth Scurilitie,..the first time he lookt out of Italy into England, it was in the habite of a Zani. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 463 Some carry tale, some please-man, some sleight saine [1623 Zanie],..That..knowes the trick To make my Lady laugh. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. i. sig. Lii^v Hee's like a Zani to a Tumbler, That tries trickes after him to make men laugh. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 85 I protest I take these Wisemen..no better then the fooles Zanies . View more context for this quotation 1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 2 Cheynell among the visitors, is a mountebanke extraordinary with 4 zanyes. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 104 They go..in the disguise of a Zanni or Pantaloon to ventilate their fopperies. 1682 New News fr. Tory-Land 7 He may serve for some Zany to a Mountebank, to jest off Medicines for the Tooth~ach to the Rabble in Southwark. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal lxix A mountebank-doctor, and his zany. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough vii. 95 There was a time, when we beheld the Quack, On public Stage, the licenc'd Tribe attack; He made his labour'd Speech with poor parade; And then a laughing Zany lent him aid. 1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey vi. 75 Those who had flattered him most when a king, were the loudest in their contempt, now that he was the court-zany. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed viii Everybody is good to the Court-fool, the zany! 2. Hence in transferred and allusive uses, with various shades of meaning: a. An attendant, follower, companion, assistant: almost always contemptuous (sometimes, hanger-on, parasite), and with direct reference to sense A. 1. Now rare or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > low, venal, or unscrupulous ribaldc1330 zany1601 myrmidon1647 henchman1875 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite clienta1393 lick-dishc1440 maunche present1440 scambler?a1513 smell-feast1519 parasite1539 hanger-on1549 parasitaster1552 waiter at the table1552 lick-trencher1571 hang-by1579 shadow1579 trencher-fly1590 trencher-friend1590 fawnguest1592 pot-hunter1592 lick-spigot1599 trencherman1599 shark1600 tub-hunter1600 zany1601 lick-box1611 by-hangera1626 cosherer1634 shirk1639 panlicker1641 clientelary1655 tantony1659 led friend1672 sponger1677 fetcher and carrier1751 myrmidon1800 trencher-licker1814 onhanger1821 tag-tail1835 sponge1838 lick-ladle1849 lick-platter1853 sucker1856 freeloader1933 bludger1938 ligger1977 joyrider1990 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E3 I pray thee be acquainted with my two Zanies [1616 iii. i. 60 hang-by's] heere. View more context for this quotation 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E2 Lady Imperia (the Curtezans Zani). c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 136 Ye Aristippian zanies,..Leave off at last your poysning honnied speach. 1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar iv. i Protean fortune, and her zany, warre. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 50 The Directory, and the geud Covenant, (its zanee). 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xv. 37 A vagrant Zany, of no certain Manger, Who knew not, ere he din'd, or Friend or Stranger. 1746–7 T. Smollett Advice 181 To shine confess'd her zany and her tool, And fall by what I rose, low ridicule. 1760 H. Walpole Let. 24 Nov. in Corr. (1941) IX. 325 On the address Pitt and his zany Beckford quarreled. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are Ye that Sow 24 The Mountebanks and Zanies of Patriotism. 1880 Q. Rev. Jan. 14 St. John was not content to be a mere zany, he aspired to rival his master as a wit, and to outstrip him as a libertine. 1911 Athenæum 25 Mar. 343/3 To figure as a zany of a peer. †b. An imitator, mimic; esp. a poor, bad, feeble, or ludicrous imitator. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > one who or that which imitates > badly or poorly zany1606 mimic1624 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person didapper1589 antic1597 zany1606 balatron1623 figure of fun1811 sketch1917 Herbert1960 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London v. sig. E4 An Ape is Zani to a man, doing ouer those trickes..which hee sees done before him. 1627 M. Drayton To H. Reynolds in Battaile Agincourt 206 As th' English, Apes and very Zanies be Of euery thing, that they doe heare and see. 1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b3^v They are for persecuting Horace and Virgil, in the persons of their Successors... Some of their little Zanies yet go farther; for they are Persecutors even of Horace himself. 1730 Flying Post 22 Dec. Their little Zanies about the Country have learnt their Cant. c. One who resembles, or acts like, a merry-andrew or buffoon; one who plays the fool for the amusement, or so as to be the laughing-stock, of others. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes > buffoon sporter1531 Owlglassc1560 scogginist1593 scurr1596 hobby-horse1600 zany1606 buffoona1610 jack pudding?c1635 Owl-spieglea1637 droll1645 buffian1655 drollist1668 droller1676 merry-andrew1694 grotesque1864 harlequin1883 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. sig. D4^v Goe too you French Zanies you. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Hypocrite 4 What is a Hypocrite but a Player, the Zani of Religion? 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 202 Oh great Restorer of the good old Stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age! 1790 J. Wolcot Advice to Future Laureat xv I'll not be Zany to a King, not I. 1846 Eclectic Rev. June 662 Sydney Smith..was a West-end chapel preacher,..a lecturer in Albemarle-street, and Zany to Holland-house. 1925 Sunday at Home Nov. 91/2 He went capering about all his tasks with a zany-like glee. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 11 A burly wind playing the zany In fields of barleycorn. 1976 G. Langford (title) Death of the early morning hero. Episodes of a zany in love. d. A fool, simpleton, ‘idiot’.‘Still dial.’ ( N.E.D.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun] boinarda1300 daffc1325 goky1377 nicea1393 unwiseman1400 totc1425 alphinc1440 dawc1500 hoddypeak1500 dawpatea1529 hoddypolla1529 noddy1534 kimec1535 coxcomb1542 sheep1542 sheep's head1542 goose1547 dawcock1556 nodgecock1566 peak-goosea1568 hottie tottie?c1570 Tom Towly1582 wittol1588 goose-cap1589 nodgecomb1592 ninny1593 chicken1600 fopdoodle16.. hoddy-noddy1600 hoddy-doddy1601 peagoose1606 fopster1607 nazold1607 nupson1607 wigeon1607 fondrel1613 simpleton1639 pigwidgeon1640 simpletonian1652 Tony1654 nizy1673 Simple Simon?1673 Tom Farthing1674 totty-head1680 cockcomb1684 cod1699 nikin1699 sap-pate1699 simpkin1699 mackninnya1706 gilly-gaupus?1719 noodle1720 sapskull1735 gobbin?1746 Judy1781 zanya1784 spoony1795 sap-head1798 spoon1799 gomerel1814 sap1815 neddy1818 milestone1819 sunket1823 sunketa1825 gawp1825 gawpy1825 gawpus1826 Tomnoddy1826 Sammy1828 tammie norie1828 Tommy1828 gom1834 noodlehead1835 nowmun1854 gum-sucker1855 flat-head1862 peggy1869 noodledum1883 jay1884 toot1888 peanut head1891 simp1903 sappyhead1922 Arkie1927 putz1928 steamer1932 jerk-off1939 drongo1942 galah1945 Charley1946 nong-nong1959 mouth-breather1979 twonk1981 a1784 S. Johnson in R. Cumberland Mem. (1806) I. 263 The lady asked me for no other purpose than to make a Zany of me. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Let. in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. (1897) I. xi. 241 The printers are awful zanies, they print erasures and corrections too, and other sins they commit of the utmost inhumanity. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. iii. 38 Whether Andrew was a genius, or whether he was a zany, was always a moot question. 1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. i A heaven for zanies and tom-fools! B. adj. (a) That is a zany, or characteristic of a zany; †imitative; clownish; foolish, idiotic. (b) Comically idiotic, crazily ridiculous.The adjectival use of the word (as if an adjective formed with -y suffix¹) is now the dominant one. In quot. 1938, ‘simple-minded’ (cf. sense A. 2d). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > apish, mocking, or mimicking apish1579 mimical1610 zany1616 monkeyish1621 mimic1727 cod1895 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective] weak1423 simple-hearted?c1425 good1480 innocent1548 plain-headeda1586 simple1604 green1605 zany1616 soft1621 ungifted1637 softly1652 half-witted1712 simple-minded1749 simpletonic1780 simpletonian1800 sawney1805 simpletonish1819 simply disposed1848 putty-headed1857 cabbage-looking1898 goonish1921 wally1922 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical merryc1390 pleasant1553 comical1575 mowsome1596 zany1616 burlesque1656 humoursome1656 farce-like1681 foolish1691 farcical1715 amusive1727 farciful1731 funny1739 farcic1763 quizzical1785 quizzy1785 quizzish1792 rib-tickling1809 smileable1830 cocasse1868 priceless1907 skit1914 funny-ha-ha1916 gas1955 1616 R. Anton Philosophers Satyrs sig. C2 Like a gorgeous robe, Purl'd ore with natures Ape, and Zany-art. 1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage E 2 Nor Britaines Odcomb (Zanye braue Vlissis) In all his ambling saw the like as this is. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 176 He will make some of your zany squires shake in their shoes. 1890 H. Caine Bondman ii. ii Your zany doings have shut every other door against you. 1918 G. B. Shaw in Nation 22 June 308/2 Before Shakespear touched Hamlet there was a zany Hamlet who mopped and mowed. 1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch viii. 117 The gardener who was apparently zany, used to level his stick at an obelisk. 1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music v. 204 Sloppy Jalopy (UPA), a zany cartoon. 1959 House & Garden June 76 Luncheon-mats of the subtlest as well as the zaniest designs. 1978 J. Krantz Scruples xii. 349 Television shows that lean heavily on the brand of humor known as ‘zany’, consisting largely of sight gags and the sight of appealing people making cheerful fools of themselves. 1983 D. Cecil Portrait of Lamb ii. ii. 143 A sympathetic spirit able to appreciate his more characteristic and zany vein of humour. Derivatives ˈzanily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > comically or humorously mirthfully1508 comically1581 drolly1662 funnily1749 farcicallya1779 ticklingly1898 pricelessly1934 zanily1958 1958 S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) i. i. 11 In Central Park sea lions barked zanily at the sky. 1966 M. Laurence Jest of God ix. 170 I've..emptied the crucial and precious capsules out of my window, zanily. 1984 Financial Times 25 July 13/6 The play is a staple of the repertory and amateur theatre diet, and while it may not inspire to the zanily surreal heights of See How They Run or Madame Louise, Dighton is certainly a name worth conjuring with. ˈzaniness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > quality or condition of comicalness?1691 comicality1718 vis comica1757 drollness1823 funniness1836 farcicality1849 funniosity1920 zaniness1960 1960 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 6 Feb. 13/2 Ginsberg, for all his carefully cultivated (and natural) zaniness, is a writer far above Kerouac. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 602/2 His wider appeal owes much more to his modern zaniness and irreverence. 1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 111/1 Many of these forays into zaniness actually wind up involving mayhem or destruction of property. 1985 Listener 21 Mar. 28/3 How could anything with Jerry Lewis not fall into a comic range somewhere between surrealistic zaniness and childish destructiveness? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). zanyv. Brit. /ˈzeɪni/, U.S. /ˈzeɪni/ Etymology: < zany n. Obsolete or rare (archaic). transitive. To play the zany to; to imitate poorly or awkwardly like a zany; hence gen. to imitate, mimic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > ape, mock, or mimic apize1598 zany1602 imitate1613 mocka1616 apea1640 monkeya1658 mimic1687 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. G2 Who..Laughes them to scorne, as man doth busie Apes When they will zanie men. a1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Queene of Corinth i. ii [He] takes his oath..that all excellence In other Madams doe but zany hers. 1691 G. Langbaine Acct. Eng. Dram. Poets 351 Francisco's zanying the Person and Humour of Albano, is an incident in several Plays. 1894 H. Pease Mark o' Deil Pref. 7 If the delicious original be beyond capture, why essay to zany it? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1596v.1602
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