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Looney   /lˈuni/   Listen
Looney

noun
1.
Someone deranged and possibly dangerous.  Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo.






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"Looney" Quotes from Famous Books



... a mighty oath you didn't surely, and wasn't he the laughing joke of every female woman where four baronies meet, the way the girls would stop their weeding if they seen him coming the road to let a roar at him, and call him the looney ...
— The Playboy of the Western World • J. M. Synge

... the asylum and t'other in the poorhouse; that's the main difference in them cases. Jim Jones fiddles with perpetual motion and Sam Smith develops a sure plan for busting Wall Street and getting rich sudden. I take summer boarders maybe, and you collect postage stamps. Oh, we're all looney, more or less, ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln



Words linked to "Looney" :   weirdo, crazy, madman, lunatic, nutcase, loony, maniac, colloquialism



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