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Looney   /lˈuni/   Listen
noun
looney  n.  Someone deranged and possibly dangerous.
Synonyms: crazy, loony, weirdo.


adjective
loony  adj.  
1.
Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound. (Low, U.S.) (Written also loony, luny and looney) See Luny.
2.
Very foolish; very impractical; as, loony ideas.


Luny  adj.  (Written also loony and looney)  Crazy; insane; mentally unsound. (Low, U.S.)





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"Looney" Quotes from Famous Books



... sure," he replied without pulling his eyes off the page. "They'll probably make up about the middle of the book. In the meantime old Pondronummus will foul his top-hamper and take out his papers for Looney Haven, and young Monshure de Boojower will come in for a million. Then if the proud and fair Angelica doesn't luff and come into his wake after pizening that sea lawyer, Thundermuzzle, I don't know nothing about the deeps and shallers of the ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... lower bunks—swift, and turning round instantly upon themselves, like animals going into lairs. The grating of a knife scraping burnt clay was heard. Knowles grinned no more. Davis said, in a tone of ardent conviction: "Then our skipper's looney." Archie muttered: "My faith! we haven't heard the last of it yet!" Four bells were struck.—"Half our watch below gone!" cried Knowles in alarm, then reflected. "Well, two hours' sleep is something towards a rest," he observed, consolingly. Some already pretended to slumber; and Charley, ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad
... "she has been in the moonlight so long I am afraid it has turned her brain. She certainly seems a little looney. The sooner she is undressed and in her ...
— Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... an' ye will!" Tim's voice bit into him like a file. "D'ye want 'im up here slittin' the throats av us—an' this gir-rul to boot? He's looney, man! 'Tis 'im, or the ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... 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


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