crackpot
pronunciation
How to pronounce crackpot in British English:
UK [ˈkrækpɒt]
How to pronounce crackpot in American English:
US [ˈkrækpɑt]
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- Noun:
- a whimsically eccentric person
Word Origin
- crackpot (n.)
- "mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference to a "metallic chinking sometimes heard when percussion is made over a cavity which communicates with a bronchus."
Example
- 1. Every crackpot in the world is calling .
- 2. And I don t care if he s pissed , he s a crackpot .
- 3. Anybody who do not accept it will be regard by most of the community as a crackpot .
- 4. And no library can be complete without jean anthelme brillat-savarin 's ridiculously quotable 1825 collection of crackpot aphorisms , the physiology of taste .
- 5. But if feminism means , at its core , that women should be able to compete equally in the workplace while deciding for themselves how they organise their family life , then mrs palin deserves to be treated as a pioneer , not dismissed as a crackpot .