loonyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈluːni/, U.S.

/ˈluni/

Forms: Also looney, luny.

Etymology: Shortened form of lunatic adj. and n. + -y suffix¹.

colloquial.

A. adj.

1. Lunatic, crazed, daft, dazed, demented, foolish, silly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1872 B. Harte Heiress of Red Dog (1879) 93 You're that looney sort of chap that lives over yonder, ain't ye?

1883 E. C. Mann Man. Psychol. Med. 424 His fits were nocturnal, and he had frequent ‘luny spells’ as he called them.

1900 F. T. Bullen With Christ at Sea xiii. 253 I sh'd a ben fair loony long ago.

2. Politics. Of (the members of) a political faction or tendency: unacceptably radical; extremist, fanatical. Esp. as loony left and derivs. Cf. hard adj. 22c and lunatic fringe n. at lunatic adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > extreme

high?1535

ultra1820

hard right1846

straight1856

extremist1907

extremistic1921

loony1977

1977 Economist 2 Apr. (Survey) 22/1 The views of the loony left are well known in the democratic world.

1983 N.Y. Times 29 July a4/6 A military analyst here attributed the change in policy to ‘a loony, fringe group’.

1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Feb. 28/5 ‘Red Dawn’, described widely as of the loony-right and paranoid, was not a very good movie.

1985 Economist 16 Nov. 41/3 It could be a picture of complacency, corruption, cronyism, loony-leftism or all four.

1987 City Limits 19 Feb. 6 The press has branded Deirdre Wood a ‘loony lefty’.

B. n.

A lunatic.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person

woodman1297

madmanc1330

lunatic1377

franticc1380

madwomana1438

March harec1500

Bedlam beggar1525

fanaticc1525

bedlama1529

frenetic1528

Jack o' Bedlam1528

Tom o' Bedlam1569

crack-brain1570

madbrain1570

Tom1575

madcap1589

gelt1596

madhead1600

brainsick1605

madpash1611

non compos1628

madling1638

bedlam-man1658

bedlamerc1675

fan1682

bedlamite1691

cracka1701

lymphatic1708

shatter-brain1719

mad1729

maniaca1763

non compos mentis1765

shatter-pate1775

shatter-wit1775

insane1786

craze1831

dement1857

crazy1867

crackpot1883

loony1884

bug1885

psychopath1885

dingbat1887

psychopathic1890

ding-a-ling1899

meshuggener1900

détraqué1902

maddiea1903

nut1908

mental1913

ding1929

lakes1934

wack1938

fruitcake1942

nutty1942

barm-pot1951

nutcake1953

nutter1958

nutcase1959

nut job1959

meshuga1962

nutsy1964

headcase1965

nutball1968

headbanger1973

nutso1975

wacko1977

nut bar1978

mentalist1990

1884 St. James's Gaz. 29 Mar. 6/2 An excellent system whereby one loony was brought to bear upon another.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 27 Dad sez loonies can't shake out a straight yarn.

Compounds

loony bin n. [bin n. 7] a facetious term for a psychiatric hospital; also figurative and elliptical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill

bedlam-house1525

dull-house1622

madhouse1649

bedlam1663

lunatic hospital1762

asylum1776

retreat1796

lunatic house1813

lunatic asylum1828

maison de santé1843

idiot asylum1848

rat house1854

bughouse1887

Colney Hatch1891

booby hatch1896

mental hospital1898

booby house1900

nut factory1900

nut collegec1906

nuthouse1906

monkey house1910

booby-hutch1914

nuttery1915

loony bin1919

nut hatch1928

silly house1930

bin1938

snake-pit1947

funny farm1950

1919 P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves 195 If you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into a luny-bin, you simply explain..it was just your Artistic Temperament.

1921 P. G. Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xxv. 303 Nine out of ten of them had views on Art which would have admitted them to any looney-bin, and no questions asked.

1938 J. Phelan Lifer xix. 201 Left him behind us there, we did, stone balmy. Finished in a loony.

1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 216 Mrs. Framley must have thought him fit for a looney bin.

1959 New Statesman 28 Mar. 434/3 In short, I do not want men to live for ever in a sort of global loony-bin.

1962 J. Symonds Bezill 68 Yes, Aunt Marion. She's locked up, you know, in the looney bin.

1974 Times 9 Feb. 10/4 (heading) In the looney bin.

loony-doctor n. slang a doctor who treats psychiatric illnesses, a psychiatrist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychiatrist

mad-doctor1697

head-doctor1850

mind-curer1856

psychiater1857

alienist1864

psychopath1864

psychiatrist1869

mind-curist1889

trick-cyclist1897

soul doctor1922

loony-doctor1925

witch doctor1930

psych1946

headshrinker1950

wig-picker1961

shrink1966

shrinker1967

1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves vi. 139 Old Sir Roderick, who's a loony-doctor and nothing but a loony-doctor, however much you may call him a nerve-specialist.

1936 E. C. Bentley & H. W. Allen Trent's Own Case iv. 39 ‘Once, I remember, he said that the worst of these loony-doctors——.’ ‘Did he say “loony-doctors”?’

1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing ii. 18 She's browsing with Sir Roderick Glossop, the loony-doctor.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	loony
释义	loonyadj.n. Brit. /ˈluːni/, U.S. /ˈluni/ Forms: Also looney, luny. Etymology: Shortened form of lunatic adj. and n. + -y suffix¹. colloquial. A. adj. 1. Lunatic, crazed, daft, dazed, demented, foolish, silly. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1872 B. Harte Heiress of Red Dog (1879) 93 You're that looney sort of chap that lives over yonder, ain't ye? 1883 E. C. Mann Man. Psychol. Med. 424 His fits were nocturnal, and he had frequent ‘luny spells’ as he called them. 1900 F. T. Bullen With Christ at Sea xiii. 253 I sh'd a ben fair loony long ago. 2. Politics. Of (the members of) a political faction or tendency: unacceptably radical; extremist, fanatical. Esp. as loony left and derivs. Cf. hard adj. 22c and lunatic fringe n. at lunatic adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > extreme high?1535 ultra1820 hard right1846 straight1856 extremist1907 extremistic1921 loony1977 1977 Economist 2 Apr. (Survey) 22/1 The views of the loony left are well known in the democratic world. 1983 N.Y. Times 29 July a4/6 A military analyst here attributed the change in policy to ‘a loony, fringe group’. 1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Feb. 28/5 ‘Red Dawn’, described widely as of the loony-right and paranoid, was not a very good movie. 1985 Economist 16 Nov. 41/3 It could be a picture of complacency, corruption, cronyism, loony-leftism or all four. 1987 City Limits 19 Feb. 6 The press has branded Deirdre Wood a ‘loony lefty’. B. n. A lunatic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1884 St. James's Gaz. 29 Mar. 6/2 An excellent system whereby one loony was brought to bear upon another. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 27 Dad sez loonies can't shake out a straight yarn. Compounds loony bin n. [bin n. 7] a facetious term for a psychiatric hospital; also figurative and elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1919 P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves 195 If you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into a luny-bin, you simply explain..it was just your Artistic Temperament. 1921 P. G. Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xxv. 303 Nine out of ten of them had views on Art which would have admitted them to any looney-bin, and no questions asked. 1938 J. Phelan Lifer xix. 201 Left him behind us there, we did, stone balmy. Finished in a loony. 1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 216 Mrs. Framley must have thought him fit for a looney bin. 1959 New Statesman 28 Mar. 434/3 In short, I do not want men to live for ever in a sort of global loony-bin. 1962 J. Symonds Bezill 68 Yes, Aunt Marion. She's locked up, you know, in the looney bin. 1974 Times 9 Feb. 10/4 (heading) In the looney bin. loony-doctor n. slang a doctor who treats psychiatric illnesses, a psychiatrist. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychiatrist mad-doctor1697 head-doctor1850 mind-curer1856 psychiater1857 alienist1864 psychopath1864 psychiatrist1869 mind-curist1889 trick-cyclist1897 soul doctor1922 loony-doctor1925 witch doctor1930 psych1946 headshrinker1950 wig-picker1961 shrink1966 shrinker1967 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves vi. 139 Old Sir Roderick, who's a loony-doctor and nothing but a loony-doctor, however much you may call him a nerve-specialist. 1936 E. C. Bentley & H. W. Allen Trent's Own Case iv. 39 ‘Once, I remember, he said that the worst of these loony-doctors——.’ ‘Did he say “loony-doctors”?’ 1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing ii. 18 She's browsing with Sir Roderick Glossop, the loony-doctor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1872
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