† straughtadj.

Etymology: Aphetic < distraught adj.

Obsolete.

Distraught, out of one's mind. Also, bereft of (one's wits, mind).

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

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peevish1523

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stark raving (also staring) mad1548

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far gone1616

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March mada1625

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demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

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flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

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mad-braineda1822

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bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

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crazied1842

off one's head1842

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loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

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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

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buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

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dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

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nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

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cuckoo1923

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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

a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues in Wks. (1843) I. 133 My scoles are not for vnthriftes vntaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half straught.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 429/2 I am straught, je suis enragé. He is straught, il est enragé.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xliv. f. 211 He seemed rather to be a man straught..than like one that had his wittes.

1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. D^v The moste of men, Wil thincke me straughte of witte.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 79^v Betweene his duskie wings he caught Orithya straught for feare.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 672 Sely women also..ranne vp and downe, as straught of their wits, to heare the noise the enemies made.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. xi. 144 Being now straught of mind, desperate, and a verie foole.

a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. G1^v Y Stro. Stumbling, What stumbling? I think the fellow be straught. Had. Sir he means Tumbling.

Derivatives

† ˈstraughtness n. Obsolete

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness

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crazedness1593

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craze1841

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crackiness1861

feyness1873

crack1891

meshugas1898

white ant1908

crackedness1910

pottiness1933

loopiness1939

wackiness1941

screwballism1942

kink1959

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/1 Straugh [t] nesse madnesse, amence.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Strawghtnes of the mynd by reason of fear, panicus.

† ˈstraughtedness n. Obsolete

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