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Loony   /lˈuni/   Listen
Loony

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



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"Loony" Quotes from Famous Books



... loony, I should have known this at once! Why, I went straight and wired to the people who must know these things; the people who make or break all diamond ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell

... here, John Kendrick! If you keep on talkin' loony in this way I'll begin to heave out a few hints myself. I may be as popular as you say, with Imogene and—and the help, but I know somebody else that ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln

... Spreen, ain't it?" demanded the other, grimly; "I'm workin' out my time with Mister Trotter hyar, ain't I? Then I still got two eyes, and I ain't turned loony yit by a long shot. I tell yuh, Elmer, I handled three skiffs yist'day—seen as they was tied securely. And now yuh tells me they ...
— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas

... advanced countries, and all using different methods of doing it. But look at the so-called advanced countries. Up to their bottoms in problems. Juvenile delinquents, climbing crime and suicide rates, the loony-bins full of the balmy, unemployed, threat of war, spending all their money on armaments instead of things like schools. All the bloody mess of it. Why, a man from Mars ...
— I'm a Stranger Here Myself • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Loony" :   colloquialism, lunatic, loon, insane, madman, maniac



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