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adjective

Crazy adj.

Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. "Piles of mean andcrazy houses." "One of great riches, but a crazy constitution." "They... got a crazy boat to carry them to the island."

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. "Over moist and crazy brains."

Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. (Colloq.) "The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."

Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; called also funny bone.

Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Bradley was to begin his term at the seminary was a clear, crisp day in later November. He had rented a room in the basement of a queer old building, known as the Park Hotel, a crazy mansard-roofed structure which held at regular intervals some rash men attempting to run it as ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

... lost my senses! Your pardon, Captain! This unlucky thing has driven me crazy. They must pick upon me! What will you drink? Here's some good brandy; sorry I can't say ...

— The Rifle Rangers • Captain Mayne Reid

... hazardous manoeuvre had opened the combat, both men sprang to life. Sometimes the log rolled one way, sometimes the other, sometimes it jerked from side to side like a crazy thing, but always with the rapidity of light, always in a smother of spray and foam. The decided spat, spat, spat of the reversing blows from the caulked boots sounded like picket firing. I could not make out the different leads, feints, parries, and counters of this strange method of ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... the mine's there yet, just where he left it," Jim answered, "but Dick went luny, crossin' the desert, and wandered around so long in the heat without water that when he was picked up he was ravin' crazy and he didn't get his senses back before he died. All anybody knows about his mine is what he said while he was luny, and you can't put much stock in that ...

— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly

... darned shame," said Billie indignantly. "Babe is only a kid. This is the first show she's been in. And I happen to know there's an awfully nice boy over in New York crazy to marry her. And I'm certain this gink is giving her a raw deal. He tried to get hold of me about a week ago, but I turned him down hard; and I suppose he thinks Babe is easier. And it's no good talking to her; she thinks he's ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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