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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
- His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
- Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- 2018, Ava Max, Madison Love, Tix, Cook Classics, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Sweet but Psycho”, in Heaven & Hell[1], performed by Ava Max:
- Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"
- Out of control.
- When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- He went crazy when he won.
- 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?:
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- Why is she so crazy about him?
- (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
- The game had a crazy ending.
- (obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 203:
- Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.
- 1816, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein”, in The Edinburgh Review February 1816:
- They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
- Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.
- (obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
- Over moist and crazy brains.
- 1710 March 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, March 17, 1709–1710”, in The Spectator, number 15; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
- c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 61:
- My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.
Synonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:insane
Derived terms
[edit]- boy crazy
- boy-crazy
- covid-crazy
- cray
- craze
- crazily
- craziness
- crazing
- crazy ant
- crazy as a bedbug
- crazy as a cootie
- crazy as a cootie bug
- crazy as a fox
- crazy as a pet coon
- crazy as a shithouse rat
- crazy as a soup sandwich
- crazy-ass
- crazy bone
- crazy bread
- crazy cake
- crazy carpet
- crazy eight
- crazy eights
- crazy glue
- crazy golf
- crazy golfer
- crazy like a fox
- crazy mad
- crazymaking
- crazy man in the bottle
- crazy pants
- crazy-pants
- crazy-pated
- crazy-paved
- crazy paving
- crazy quilt
- crazy straw
- crazy up
- drive someone crazy
- girl crazy
- go crazy
- let crazy stick its dick in you
- like crazy
- plumb crazy
- so crazy it just might work
- so crazy it might just work
- stick one's dick in crazy
- stir crazy
- stir-crazy
- yellow crazy ant
Collocations
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- little crazy
- half crazy
- really crazy
- completely crazy
- absolutely crazy
- totally crazy
- truly crazy
Translations
[edit]insane, demented
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out of control
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very excited
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Adverb
[edit]crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)
- (slang) Very, extremely.
- That trick was crazy good.
- 2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 67:
- I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.
Translations
[edit]very, extremely
Noun
[edit]crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)
- (slang, countable) An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- (slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
- 2013, Douglas Schwartz, Checkered Scissors, page 211:
- Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an insane or eccentric person
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