crazy
pronunciation
How to pronounce crazy in British English:
UK [ˈkreɪzi]
How to pronounce crazy in American English:
US [ˈkreɪzi]
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- Noun:
- someone deranged and possibly dangerous
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- Adjective:
- affected with madness or insanity
- foolish; totally unsound
- marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
- possessed by inordinate excitement
- bizarre or fantastic
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
Word Origin
- crazy
- crazy: [16] Crazy originally meant literally ‘cracked’ (a sense preserved in the related crazed). This soon came to be extended metaphorically to ‘frail, ill’ (as in Shakespeare’s ‘some better place, fitter for sickness and crazy age’, 1 Henry VI), and thence to ‘mentally unbalanced’. It was derived from the verb craze [14], which was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse verb *krasa ‘shatter’ (likely source, too, of French écraser ‘crush, smash’).
- crazy (adj.)
- 1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thašuka witko, literally "his horse is crazy."
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Example
- 1. And she doesn 't do all that crazy stuff .
- 2. These things drive me a little crazy .
- 3. Most of my family and friends think I am crazy .
- 4. He had a crazy sparkle in his eye , but that wasn 't anything unusual .
- 5. That would help maintain the aura and identity that make people so crazy about apple .