different between crazy vs nutbar

English

Etymology

From craze +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?zi/
• Rhymes: -e?zi

Adjective

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

1. (obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 203:

     Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.

   • 1816, Francis Jeffrey, "Memoirs of Madame de Larochejaquelein", in The Edinburgh Review February 1816

     They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
2. (obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     Over moist and crazy brains.

   • One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.

   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 61:

     My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.

3. Of unsound mind; insane, demented. [from 17th c.]

4. Out of control.

5. Very excited or enthusiastic.
   • 1864, R. B. Kimball, Was He Successful?

     The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.

6. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

7. (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:insane
• (out of control): off the chain, nutso
• (insane; lunatic; demented): deranged, loco, nutso, zany

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)

1. (slang) Very, extremely.

Translations

Noun

crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)

1. An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?

2. (slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.

Synonyms

• (insane or eccentric person): lunatic, mad man, nut ball, nut case, nutso, psychopath

Translations

See also

• crazy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

nut +? bar

Pronunciation

Adjective

nutbar (not comparable)

1. (slang) Crazy, eccentric.
   • 1996 May 9, "Sue & Mil Garrett" (username), "First question ever", in alt.tv.highlander, Usenet:

     Have Duncan and Richie been back together since Duncan went nutbar on us and tried for Richie's head?

   • 1999 December 3, "Aaron R. Kulkis" (username), "Did Aaron finaly lose his Flash.net account?", in alt.romance, Usenet:

     > information. At which point Aaron went nutbar. […]

   • 2001 October 10, "Dan Hartung" (username), "Ariel Sharon Declares War On USA ", in alt.true-crime, Usenet:

     He's almost as nutbar as that, um, other guy.

   • 2006 September 18, "Jaime M. de Castellvi" (username), "Killfile the following people", in rec.arts.tv, Usenet:

     It seems that at least some of them did not entirely relish what they perused, for they went nutbar and the rest is history.

Synonyms

• (crazy): loony, nutty, potty; see also Thesaurus:insane
• (eccentric): kooky, odd, pixilated; see also Thesaurus:eccentric

Noun

nutbar (plural nutbars)

1. (slang) A crazy, eccentric person.

Synonyms

• (crazy person): loony, nut, whackjob; see also Thesaurus:mad person
• (eccentric person): kook, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Related terms

• nut
• nutbag
• nutjob
• nutty

Anagrams

• tanbur, turban