stir-crazy
adjective
stir-cra·zy ˈstər-ˈkrā-zē 
slang
: distraught because of prolonged confinement
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Stir-crazy originated as a word to describe a prisoner who became distraught after prolonged confinement. Stir is a 19th-century slang word for "prison" that some word historians have suspected to be from Romani stariben, of the same meaning. But a convincing argument of that origin has yet been made. Today, stir-crazy describes any person who has become restless, agitated, or anxious from being or feeling entrapped in some place.
Word History
Etymology
stir entry 3
First Known Use
circa 1908, in the meaning defined above
- make someone's head spin
- make someone's skin crawl
- make someone's skin crawl/creep
- make someone's skin creep
- make someone's skin/flesh crawl
- make someone's skin/flesh creep
- make someone's stomach turn
- make something into a big deal
- make something known
- make something of
- make something of (oneself)
- make something of it
- make something of one's life
- make something of oneself
- make something one's own
- make something stick
- make sport of
- make stick
- make sure
- make the acquaintance of someone
- make the bed
- make the best of
- make the best of a bad job
- make the best of it
- make the connection