buggyn.1
/ˈbʌɡi/, U.S. /ˈbəɡi/ 1. A light horse-drawn vehicle for one or two people, having two or (esp. in North America) four wheels and often a hood or folding top. Now chiefly historical.Widespread as a means of short-distance travel before the rise of motorized transport, buggies are now chiefly associated with traditionalist communities such as the Amish; cf. horse-and-buggy at horse n. 25d.livery buggy, sidebar buggy, top buggy, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > buggy
buggy1758
tray-buggy1890
hug-me-tight1901
1758 T. Nevile Imit. Horace i. iii. 33 Suspended Buggies, Capreoles, and Chairs, Need we Subscriptions for Mile-End Repairs?
1761 J. Woodforde Diary 3 July in Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 46 Mr. Lucas and myself went to Woodstock this afternoon in a one-horse-Chair... We paid for our Chair (commonly called a Buggy) to one Blaggrove, before we mounted.
1769 E. Thompson Trinculo's Trip 6 In a buggy comes a Priest.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. xiv. 187 Villebecque prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 287 We drove as far as Deobund in the buggy.
1952 Pop. Mech. Jan. 139/1 Buggies, carriages, wagons, horses, mules and bicycles..—that was city transportation in 1902!
1998 G. Logsdon You Can Go Home Again xiv. 150 Few of us ‘English’ were fortunate enough to get to know the Amish way of life well, even here in Kidron, Ohio where I actually saw a traffic jam of buggies occur.
2. Originally U.S. A pram; (later chiefly) a pushchair for a baby or young child, a stroller.Recorded earliest in baby buggy n. at baby n. and adj. Compounds 1g.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > perambulator for child
mail-cart1767
baby carriage1825
carriage1829
go-cart1853
perambulator1853
pushcart1853
bassinet1855
baby buggy1862
buggy1862
gypsy cab1864
baby coach1866
pushcar1867
pram1881
wagon1887
pushchair1893
kiddy car1918
stroller1920
pusher1953
1862 Louisville (Kentucky) Daily Democrat 4 May Baby Buggies. All kinds and sizes, of our own manufacture, for sale.
1876 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 5 Mar. A Canopy Top Doll Buggy.
1917 Harper's Mag. July 264/2 Did you take the baby out of the buggy at all?
1983 Daily Tel. 6 Sept. 11/1 Is this the pram of the future? The buggy Sebastian Conran has designed takes the shopping as well as the baby.
2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. 15 If you want to see the first-floor exhibits you have to abandon your buggy at reception and carry your baby upstairs.
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a. Mining. A small mine car, typically used for transporting small loads of coal within a mine. Now historical. Cf. bogie n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation
tram1517
wagon1649
rolley1817
buggy1867
barney1874
hod1883
whirley1886
shuttle car1905
manrider1967
scooptram1967
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun]
buggy1867
cable-carriera1884
telpher train1884
cable-car1887
telpher1901
tram1905
flying fox1936
1867 Statistics Coal Trade U.S. 1866 43/2 The labor of loading the coal into the buggy and tipping it into the schute.
1873 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 11 Feb. 82/2 The coal..is then dropped, by means of a simple slide, to buggies which are run under the bins. These buggies hold 1,100 pounds each, (1,000 lbs. coal and 100 lbs. water).
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 113 Buggy, a small mine-wagon holding ½ ton to 1 ton of coal.
1921 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 24 Dec. 1018/2 The coal is shoveled into the buggy at the face of the room, and the load pushed to the entry and transferred to the mine cars.
2003 V. J. Genovese Billy Heath i. 41 The coal would be loaded into buggies that would be hoisted topside by teams of mules.
b. U.S. Railways slang. A railway carriage providing accommodation and facilities for the train's crew, typically attached to the rear of the train; = caboose n. 2. Now somewhat rare.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > van used by workmen or crew
service car1841
caboose1861
buggy1899
1899 Boston Globe 18 Mar. 12/2 Estimating the total length of these [freight] cars, with the engines and buggies.
1925 G. H. Mullin Adventures Scholar Tramp vii. 103 The shacks, then, were all back in the caboose, or buggy, as it is known on the road.
1953 B. A. Botkin & A. F. Harlow Treasury Railroad Folklore iv. i. 326 The student set his lamp on the ground and cooned the buggy [climbed the ladder to the hand-brake].
1973 M. H. Mathers Riding Rails 34 I have had brakeys invite me to ride in the ‘buggy’ (caboose) or in one of the engines where it was warm.
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a. U.S. (now chiefly colloquial). A car, an automobile. Cf. struggle-buggy n. at struggle n. Compounds. Now somewhat rare.In early use frequently with modifying word to distinguish from horse-drawn buggies (see sense 1), as gasoline buggy, horseless buggy, motor buggy, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]
buggy1888
motor vehicle1890
motor carriage1894
autocar1895
jam jar1895
motor car1895
car1896
traction1896
motor1899
bubble1901
machine1901
Lizzie1913
buzz-wagon1914
road car1914
short1914
scooter1917
buzz-box1920
ride1930
drag1935
bus1939
wagon1955
wheels1959
sheen1968
low rider1974
scoot1977
1888 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 5 Sept. 4/2 A funereal array of horseless buggies and fizzing electric lights.
1899 Electr. World & Electr. Engineer 24 June 878/1 The buggy is propelled by a single motor, operated by current from a storage battery.
1911 Physician's Automobile in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Apr. p. vi/2 My use of this motor buggy has shown me that the auto is a good thing for either city or country.
1927 H. Yenne Prison Lingo in Amer. Speech 2 280/1 ‘Buggy bandits’ or ‘joy-riders’ (automobile thieves).
1949 J. Creasey Battle for Inspector West xiii. 119 ‘Come on,’ he said, ‘you're changing buggies.’ Grant hesitated; rain splashed into the car.
1971 Boys' Life May 20/4 The longer a driver keeps his buggy, the bigger the saving on depreciation.
2014 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 30 Aug. 4 a Our family buggy was a Model-A Ford coupe.
b. Originally U.S. A small motor vehicle designed for off-road driving, typically having an open top or sides.Frequently with modifying word, often indicating the type of terrain for which the vehicle is designed. beach buggy, dune buggy, moon buggy, etc.: see the first element.Recorded earliest in golf buggy n. at golf n. Additions.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > beach buggy
buggy1930
dune buggy1955
beach buggy1961
1930 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 16 July 12/2 Garry O'Reair has a new golf buggy.
1930 Port Arthur (Texas) News 3 Oct. 7/2 The buggies are mongrels of the motor world—half tractor and half automobile, and are built..to solve the ever-present gulf coast problem of marsh transportation.
1941 National Geographic Mag. June 706 Their ‘swamp-buggy’ is a seagoing amphibious-looking vehicle. Its 10-foot high wheels are equipped with fat, fin-studded oversized tires which act as propellers.
1961 Economist 27 May 918/1 The green fees, he said, were a bit stiff, and the electric buggies cost $14 a day.
1986 C. Phillips State of Independence 128 Bertram..watched the buggies that dashed between the hotel and the dunes.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Travel section) 6 Each [room] comes with keys to a buggy, so you can scout the best locations for watching the sunset.
5. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and Midland) and Canadian. A large metal basket on wheels provided for the use of supermarket customers. Also: a large shopping bag set on a wheeled frame. Cf. shopping trolley n. at shopping n.2 Compounds 2, shopping cart n. 1.Also with modifying word, as grocery buggy, shopping buggy. See also bundle buggy n. at bundle n. Additions.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > large wire basket on wheels
shopping cart1934
buggy1940
shopping trolley1951
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > shopping-bag > on wheeled frame
buggy1940
bundle buggy1942
shopping trolley1951
1940 H. Dallas Chain Stores—Pro & Con 16 She..doesn't feel like lugging a wicker basket or pushing a wire grocery buggy through the maze of cans and cartons that line the aisles of a chain food store.
1953 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 June 24/2 The customer unloads her shopping buggy at one end [of the conveyor belt].
1975 Camden (Arkansas) News 14 Feb. 1/1 We can tell them eight or less items, but someone will push up a buggy full of groceries.
1994 Earthkeeper Apr. 24/3 Curb cuts to allow access by wheelchairs, shopping buggies, and baby carriages.
2007 L. Perry Drunk, Divorced & covered in Cat Hair xxxii. 120 Every shopper was in a hurry, ramming their buggies right into you.
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a. General attributive, appositive, and objective, as buggy driver, buggy strap, buggy wagon, etc.
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1788 Calcutta Chron. 13 Mar. To be sold by Public Auction..A very handsome bay Mare,..A ditto dark grey Saddle-Horse, A ditto Buggy-Tanian.
1823 Repository of Arts 1 Feb. 104/2 He..coolly addressed these words to the chopfallen buggy driver.
1841 Spirit of Times 18 Dec. 502/3 He has now..on hand from 10 to 12 of the best new buggy wagons.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 200 Picking up an old buggy neck yoke, I laid him out with it.
1917 E. W. Mumford in E. Jordan Sturdy Oak x. 217 Emelene..collapsed helplessly back on the cushions, like a baby who has encountered the resistance of his buggy strap.
1931 Amer. Mercury Jan. 58/1 After a Summer of hard work on a kulak's farm I mounted my father's buggy-mule and headed for that course in farming.
1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm vi. 77 Henry's buggy reins, tied to a cream-can lid, had formed a queen's chair for Harry.
2010 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Property section) 7 This large, recently refurbished villa..is only a buggy drive away from the golf course and restaurants.
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buggy cushion n.
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1817 G. Colman Hist. Elsmere & Rosa I. vix. 285 I..put the rotten eggs under the buggy cushions.
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 29 She..returned with a buggy-cushion, which she slipped under his head.
2011 J. A. Gallagher Wild West Hist. of Frontier Colorado ii. 50 His enraged lover continued shooting, never hitting anything more than the buggy cushions.
buggy harness n.
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1788 Calcutta Chron. 3 Jan. For sale..Sadlery: consisting of plated Phaeton and Buggy harness.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxvi. §4743 Gig, carriage, and American buggy harness.
1970 Field & Stream Mar. 211/1 There was a buggy harness in the shed.
2012 J. Kramer Shunning Sarah xxxiv. 158 I enjoyed the benefits of electricity and automobiles too much to go back to kerosene lamps and buggy harnesses on a regular basis.
buggy horse n.
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1782 India Gaz. 14 Sept. An excellent Buggy Horse about 15 Hands high.
1825 Annals Sporting vii. 59 The speed and pluck of their buggy horses.
1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 401 He had no more training than we give our common buggy horses.
2014 R. Reid Woodland Miracle viii. 73 Buggy horses are not intended to be ridden for mere pleasure. They provide a service.
buggy seat n.
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1849 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 2 July The money was put in a pair of saddle-bags, placed under the buggy seat.
1960 Boys' Life Jan. 13/2 Sitting beside me on the buggy seat.
2011 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 2 I had a bit of a tussle to remove the buggy seat but didn't get to the point of swearing once.
buggy trip n.
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1843 Monthly Times 6 Dec. 485/4 A buggy trip from Barrackpore to Calcutta.
1898 Australasian Pastoralists' Rev. 15 Mar. 10/1 It is very pleasant to get off the train at your door instead of having the ‘demnition grind’ of a long buggy trip.
1949 Georgia Hist. Q. 33 93 A buggy trip of two weeks into northern Florida.
2007 Indiana Mag. Hist. 103 340/2 Willis recalls buggy trips in southern Indiana.
buggy wheel n.
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1834 Juvenile Forget-me-not 59 Some unseen obstruction came in contact with the buggy-wheels, and over it went with a tremendous crash.
1924 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 80/2 A swivel-top drawing-board stand..was made from an old buggy wheel and its axle.
2014 Star (Sheffield) (Nexis) 22 Apr. Have you ever washed excrement from a rubber buggy wheel after it has dried on?
c. U.S. Designating a piece of light, horse-drawn agricultural equipment fitted with wheels and a seat for the driver. Now rare and chiefly historical.
buggy cultivator n.
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1863 Cedar Falls (Iowa) Gaz. 16 Oct. Buggy roller, buggy cultivator, buggy corn drill, buggy corn cutter, buggy sower and driller, buggy mower, buggy rake, buggy reaper, and buggy everything.
1866 Sorgo Jrnl. & Farm Machinist Feb. 47/2 A buggy cultivator suitable for plowing between rows of cane.
1942 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 25 July 3/3 (advt.) 1 buggy cultivator, 2 walking cultivators.
buggy plough n.
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1860 Ann. Rep. Indiana State Board Agric. 1858–9 83 Suffice it to say, we use the drill and the improved corn plow, or buggy plow.
1947 M. Sandoz Tom-walker i. vii. 122 A medicine peddler with an iron leg that was handy as a buggy plow.
1991 T. A. Woods Knights of Plow v. 91 The idea of riding on ‘buggy plows’ while plowing so excited him that he exclaimed, ‘Won't it be fun to be a farmer?’
buggy rake n.
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1849 Michigan Farmer Aug. 238/3 (advt.) Barrow and buggy rakes—A good supply of both on hand and for sale.
1914 S. S. McClure My Autobiogr. ii. 46 I suffered so from dysentery that I was unable to sit on the buggy-rake.
1979 S. Goodwin Blood of Paradise xv. 185 Some bearded guy..had once stopped and offered to buy the old combine and buggy rake.
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buggy-boat n. U.S. rare a boat fitted with wheels so that it can also be used as a land vehicle.
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1859 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 68 230 Arranging paddles upon the spokes of the wheels of a buggy boat, so that the wheels perform the two-fold purpose of paddle-wheels and carriage wheels.
1921 L. Garis Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong x. 86 We'll make them run harder than they did us, with their old buggy-boat in the lake.
2004 J. Boyce Ultimate Bk. of Power Kiting & Kiteboarding iv. 47 The curious buggy-boat that Lynn was also manufacturing.
buggy sleigh n. U.S. (now rare) a light horse-drawn sleigh for one or two people.
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1837 Boston Morning Post 4 Mar. 4 elegant buggy sleighs.
1870 E. S. Phelps in Atlantic Monthly July 16/1 We braved the silence in the great gulps of mountain wind that well-nigh swept the buggy sleigh over.
2004 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Dec. 8 With an eye to holiday decorating, we found this vintage wicker buggy sleigh for $79.
buggy whip n. a light whip with a relatively short lash, for driving or controlling a horse or horses pulling a buggy (see sense 1).Now often used in similative expressions, as the type of something obsolescent (originally and chiefly North American).
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1785 India Gaz. 23 May (advt.) For Sale..Phaeton, Jocky, and Buggy Whips.
1898 O. Read Yankee from West iii. 27 She snatched a buggy whip and sallied forth into the grove.
1941 E. Welty Curtain of Green 276 Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a buggy whip, would switch at the brush.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. c1 Many fraternal organizations are losing members and seem as archaic as the buggy whip.
2013 J. Lanier Who owns Future? viii. 97 Music is not fading away like buggy whips, any more than the need for education will.
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buggyn.2
/ˈbʌɡi/, U.S. /ˈbəɡi/ Tailoring.
The lining which covers the back of the neck and shoulders in an otherwise unlined coat or jacket. Also more fully buggy lining. O.E.D. Suppl. (1933) notes: ‘known in the trade from at least c1880’.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > lining
lining1401
interline?1577
underlining1580
body lining1676
buggy1890
liner1947
1890 Tailor & Cutter Aug. 188/1 Basting over, including back lining or buggy.
1958 Go Mar. 41/1 A splendid..coat for the riding enthusiast with red buggy lining,..a storm tab at the throat and generous fan pleat at the back.
1964 Which? Mar. 94/1 The buggy lining was too full across the shoulders, so making the jacket look creased and bumpy.
2009 R. Anderson Bespoke 268 Buggy, lining across the back of an otherwise unlined coat—reminiscent of buggy carriages that have an awning but no ‘lining’ on the front or sides.
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buggyadj.
/ˈbʌɡi/, U.S. /ˈbəɡi/ 1.
a. Infested with insects or other bugs (bug n.2 1); characterized by the presence of a large number of insects or other bugs. Now chiefly North American.In some instances (e.g. quots. 1789, 1854) spec.: infested with bedbugs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with insects
buggy1696
1696 S. Sewall Let. 31 July in Let.-bk. (1886) I. 166 Her child had a Pea in the forhead, circumstanced as a Buggy Pea uses to be.
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 35 When they have taken it [sc. old Furniture] down, because it was buggy.
1789 M. Time Pennsylvania Almanack sig. D From a bad conscience, and a buggy bed..From each of these—may I continue free.
1832 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 2 June 170/1 They came up well, and produced a fine crop clear of bugs, while the others along side were very buggy.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 207 One of those provisionless Sicilian locande, boasting..a thunny supper and a buggy bed.
1861 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 11 May (Suppl.) 3/2 As for the Preston workhouse, it is the nastiest, buggiest..place I was ever at.
1920 J. Bracken Crop Production in Western Canada ix. 234 Peas shall be such as are too dirty to be graded No. 2 or are worm-eaten or buggy.
1948 Life 19 July 50/2 Along the Atlantic seaboard the wettest spring in 77 years has spawned a very buggy summer.
2010 New Yorker 1 Mar. 38/3 It's getting buggy on the beach.
b. Characteristic of an insect or other bug (bug n.2 1); resembling an insect or other bug. Chiefly North American.In some instances (e.g. quot. 1896): characteristic of a bedbug.
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1896 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 10 Oct. 11/7 Its ‘buggy’ odor is even more intense and offensive than that of the ordinary bed-bug.
1904 34th Ann. Rep. Entomol. Soc. Ont. 79 (caption) A minute black bug, producing a ‘buggy’ odor when eaten with berry.
1951 L. Wulff New Handbk. Freshwater Fishing iv. 63 If it [sc. a fly] looks ‘buggy’..the fish will be interested.
2005 R. Singer Self Incrimination xxxiv. 126 I've got something to tell you, and it will be easier if you're not staring at me with those buggy eyes.
2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
a. Irrational; mentally disturbed; mad, insane, crazy. Cf. bugs adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
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(to go) off one's dot1883
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balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
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off one's pannikin1894
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twisted1900
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bugs1904
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nutty as a fruitcake1911
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cuckoo1923
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détraqué1925
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off one's rocket1925
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mental1927
phooey1927
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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
1893 D. J. Morgan Hist. Lights & Shadows Ohio State Penitentiary 83 When a ‘boy’ gets in this ‘offish’ state the prisoners call him ‘buggy’... He is duly examined, and..is placed for safe keeping in the ‘Bug House’.
1903 J. Flynt Rise of Ruderick Clowd viii. 263 The old man is not buggy. What you take for a lameness of mind is merely a liveliness of temperament.
1974 G. Ryga Hungry Hills (new ed.) iii. 43 Let's beat it. This broad is driving me buggy.
2011 C. Decker To see Green Flash xviii. 66 Saturday morning Sandra is going totally buggy, trying on every outfit at least twice.
b. With about, on, over, etc. Having a passion for or obsession with; mad on, wildly excited about. Cf. bugs adj. 2.
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the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective] > extremely
mada1350
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wilda1817
crazy1826
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schwärmerisch1894
bugs1908
buggy1913
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1913 Commerc. Telegraphers' Jrnl. 11 310/1 The W. U. is still buggy here about the operators making an average whether they are working slow or fast wires.
1967 G. Olson Pistons & Powderpuffs vii. 100 She's buggy about him and he's buggy about her.
1970 Boys' Life June 26/2 Last year..the courts were built and Weston went buggy over tennis.
1983 C. C. Greene Ask Anybody (2015) x. I'm full of cat hairs. My mama'll have a fit. She's buggy on keeping a place clean.
2005 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 21 June b4 The arrangements are grand in that Peter Gabriel-esque prog/pop fashion that Europeans go buggy over.
3. Computing. Of a computer program, software, etc.: containing errors; prone to malfunction. Cf. bug n.2 5.
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1965 Operational Res. Q. 16 211 Two buggy compilers might lead to a program running correctly on the development program and failing on the production program.
1982 80 Microcomputing Jan. 335/2 As it stands now.., it is a very buggy program.
1990 Daily Tel. 29 May 27/8 Dos Version 4 had an undeserved reputation for being buggy.
2009 D. Paterson Rain 18 I imagine your entire DAW [digital audio workstation] as pure as the driven snow, and not in any way buggy or virusy.
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