wackyadj.

Brit.

/ˈwaki/, U.S.

/ˈwæki/

Forms: Also whacky.

Etymology: < whack n. + -y suffix¹: compare whack n. For earlier uses (‘a fool; left-handed’) see Eng. Dial. Dict.

slang (originally U.S.).

Crazy, mad; odd, peculiar.

a. Of persons.

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

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giddyc1000

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fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

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extraught1509

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peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

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fanatic1533

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daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

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acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

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crazed1599

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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

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky

fantastical1531

odd1577

eccentric1685

fanaticized1827

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bee-bonneted1856

cornery1887

screwy1887

kinky1889

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ratty1895

batchy1898

batsc1901

batty1903

potty1920

offbeat1922

off-centre1930

wacky1935

screwball1936

up the creek1941

oddball1945

wackadoo1958

kooky1959

wiggy1963

flaky1964

nutball1968

woo-woo1971

wacko1977

off-kilter1985

wackadoodle1993

fantastic-

1935 J. Hargan in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XXX. 365 Wacky, insane.

1938 ‘J. Digges’ Bowleg Bill 28 They all want to know why he done it, and is he gone clean whacky.

1942 Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 8/1 Her grandmother, wackier than she is, haunts the place.

1950 ‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley xv. 172 She might..leave..her kids to that wacky aunt of theirs.

1964 Economist 13 June 1242/2 Departed, prostrate or, in former President Eisenhower's recent phrase, ‘a little bit whacky’.

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 420 It did much to drive the Ellen Jamesians even wackier or simply away.

1984 Observer 18 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 7/2 She plays the wacky mother of Debra Winger.

b. Of things or abstract concepts.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky > of things

wacky1937

1937 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 8/1 This picture is described as ‘the wackiest’.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 14 The whole office was afraid of him. I know that sounds wacky. Hardened newspapermen being afraid of a..little office-boy?

1959 S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time x. 141 Your cousin's death was wacky—why go to the trouble of staging an accident?

1969 L. Hellman Unfinished Woman iv. 37 The office was a wacky joint in a brownstone house on 48th Street.

1975 D. Lodge Changing Places v. 191 A characteristically whacky, yet somehow endearing tenderness for individual liberty.

1984 Listener 24 May 39/3 In his fear of death Betjeman's hand shook, and lines were created more from wacky fright than profound or energising contemplation.

Derivatives

ˈwackiness n. the state or quality of being ‘wacky’; craziness, oddness.

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

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alienation?a1425

furiosity?a1475

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furiousnessc1500

unwitness1527

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straughtness1530

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crazedness1593

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non compos mentis1607

distraction1609

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disinsanitya1625

cerebrosity1647

vecordy1656

fanaticness1662

non-sanity1675

insaneness1730

craziness1755

hydrophobia1760

vecord1788

derangement1800

vesania1800

a screw loose1810

unsoundness1825

dementedness1833

craze1841

psychosis1847

crackiness1861

feyness1873

crack1891

meshugas1898

white ant1908

crackedness1910

pottiness1933

loopiness1939

wackiness1941

screwballism1942

kink1959

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity

fantasticalness1581

fantasticality1592

eccentricity1657

fantasticness1661

out-of-the-wayness1800

nuttiness1865

crankiness1870

crankism1882

crankery1884

faddishness1884

faddism1885

crankness1890

pottiness1933

wackiness1941

offbeatness1960

kookiness1962

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Oct. 10/2 Maybe the majority won't think that ‘the wonderful bums’ [sc. the Brooklyn Dodgers] can win, but they will be out by the thousands..hoping that wackiness will be more than its own reward.

1980 R. L. Duncan Brimstone iv. 80 For all her wackiness, Annie knew how to live.

Draft additions 1993

ˈwackily adv. in a ‘wacky’ or crazy manner.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > eccentric or cranky

eccentrically1737

off-centre1876

dottily1937

wackily1961

kookily1968

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wackily.

1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) xxxvii. 358 Setting the sparrows to flying wackily about in the rafters, beaning themselves on the walls.

1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 33/2 No cuts, no rewrites—just a squib of disinformation in Pravda wackily indicting Orwell for stealing his book from an essay by an obscure 19th century Russian literary critic.

Draft additions December 2002

wacky baccy n. slang marijuana.

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1983 CoEvolution Q. Spring 92 I think that new guy's been smokin' some of that wacky backy.

1993 I. Banks Crow Road 206 ‘You don't mind me having a little smoke?’.. ‘Oh,’ Fergus said, suddenly realising, ‘You mean the old wacky baccy.’

1998 Truth (Auckland) (Nexis) 8 May 1 The controversial halfback..admits at one stage in his career he trained in the morning and hit the wacky baccy after lunch—as team mates reached for fruit juice or vitamin pills.

Draft additions December 2002

wacky tobaccy n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions.

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1982 E. L. Abel Marihuana Dict. 108 Wacky tobaccy, marihuana.

1986 Time 28 Apr. 70 The two Brads share an idyllic toke of ‘wacky tobaccy’.

2000 Esquire May 114/2 I start to calculate normal wear and tear. My brain on Budweiser. The drumfuls of fluorocarbons I have sucked out of the New York air, the odd ounce of wacky tabacky in high school, cooking with aluminum.

Draft additions December 2002

wacky weed n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions.

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1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger i. 16 Jeff has some good smoke tonight—he calls it wacky weed—and..he and Jones get down with a little wine and some weed, and they rap.

1992 E. A. Proulx Postcards xl. 242 He winked at Loyal who guessed there were plots of wacky weed up there somewhere.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wacky
释义	wackyadj. Brit. /ˈwaki/, U.S. /ˈwæki/ Forms: Also whacky. Etymology: < whack n. + -y suffix¹: compare whack n. For earlier uses (‘a fool; left-handed’) see Eng. Dial. Dict. slang (originally U.S.). Crazy, mad; odd, peculiar. a. Of persons. 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 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky fantastical1531 odd1577 eccentric1685 fanaticized1827 cranky1850 bee-bonneted1856 cornery1887 screwy1887 kinky1889 crankish1892 ratty1895 batchy1898 batsc1901 batty1903 potty1920 offbeat1922 off-centre1930 wacky1935 screwball1936 up the creek1941 oddball1945 wackadoo1958 kooky1959 wiggy1963 flaky1964 nutball1968 woo-woo1971 wacko1977 off-kilter1985 wackadoodle1993 fantastic- 1935 J. Hargan in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XXX. 365 Wacky, insane. 1938 ‘J. Digges’ Bowleg Bill 28 They all want to know why he done it, and is he gone clean whacky. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 8/1 Her grandmother, wackier than she is, haunts the place. 1950 ‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley xv. 172 She might..leave..her kids to that wacky aunt of theirs. 1964 Economist 13 June 1242/2 Departed, prostrate or, in former President Eisenhower's recent phrase, ‘a little bit whacky’. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 420 It did much to drive the Ellen Jamesians even wackier or simply away. 1984 Observer 18 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 7/2 She plays the wacky mother of Debra Winger. b. Of things or abstract concepts. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky > of things wacky1937 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 8/1 This picture is described as ‘the wackiest’. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 14 The whole office was afraid of him. I know that sounds wacky. Hardened newspapermen being afraid of a..little office-boy? 1959 S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time x. 141 Your cousin's death was wacky—why go to the trouble of staging an accident? 1969 L. Hellman Unfinished Woman iv. 37 The office was a wacky joint in a brownstone house on 48th Street. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places v. 191 A characteristically whacky, yet somehow endearing tenderness for individual liberty. 1984 Listener 24 May 39/3 In his fear of death Betjeman's hand shook, and lines were created more from wacky fright than profound or energising contemplation. Derivatives ˈwackiness n. the state or quality of being ‘wacky’; craziness, oddness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity fantasticalness1581 fantasticality1592 eccentricity1657 fantasticness1661 out-of-the-wayness1800 nuttiness1865 crankiness1870 crankism1882 crankery1884 faddishness1884 faddism1885 crankness1890 pottiness1933 wackiness1941 offbeatness1960 kookiness1962 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Oct. 10/2 Maybe the majority won't think that ‘the wonderful bums’ [sc. the Brooklyn Dodgers] can win, but they will be out by the thousands..hoping that wackiness will be more than its own reward. 1980 R. L. Duncan Brimstone iv. 80 For all her wackiness, Annie knew how to live. Draft additions 1993 ˈwackily adv. in a ‘wacky’ or crazy manner. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > eccentric or cranky eccentrically1737 off-centre1876 dottily1937 wackily1961 kookily1968 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wackily. 1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) xxxvii. 358 Setting the sparrows to flying wackily about in the rafters, beaning themselves on the walls. 1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 33/2 No cuts, no rewrites—just a squib of disinformation in Pravda wackily indicting Orwell for stealing his book from an essay by an obscure 19th century Russian literary critic. Draft additions December 2002 wacky baccy n. slang marijuana. ΚΠ 1983 CoEvolution Q. Spring 92 I think that new guy's been smokin' some of that wacky backy. 1993 I. Banks Crow Road 206 ‘You don't mind me having a little smoke?’.. ‘Oh,’ Fergus said, suddenly realising, ‘You mean the old wacky baccy.’ 1998 Truth (Auckland) (Nexis) 8 May 1 The controversial halfback..admits at one stage in his career he trained in the morning and hit the wacky baccy after lunch—as team mates reached for fruit juice or vitamin pills. Draft additions December 2002 wacky tobaccy n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1982 E. L. Abel Marihuana Dict. 108 Wacky tobaccy, marihuana. 1986 Time 28 Apr. 70 The two Brads share an idyllic toke of ‘wacky tobaccy’. 2000 Esquire May 114/2 I start to calculate normal wear and tear. My brain on Budweiser. The drumfuls of fluorocarbons I have sucked out of the New York air, the odd ounce of wacky tabacky in high school, cooking with aluminum. Draft additions December 2002 wacky weed n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger i. 16 Jeff has some good smoke tonight—he calls it wacky weed—and..he and Jones get down with a little wine and some weed, and they rap. 1992 E. A. Proulx Postcards xl. 242 He winked at Loyal who guessed there were plots of wacky weed up there somewhere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1935
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