different between crazy vs wacko

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

Alternative forms

• whacko

Etymology

wack(y) + -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wæk??/
• Rhymes: -æk??

Adjective

wacko (comparative more wacko, superlative most wacko)

1. (informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.

   Synonyms: kooky, oddballish, pixilated; see also Thesaurus:eccentric

Translations

Noun

wacko (plural wackos or wackoes)

1. (informal) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.

   Synonyms: kook, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Interjection

wacko

1. (Britain, dated) hurrah!

   Synonyms: get in, huzzah, woo hoo; see also Thesaurus:yay

Old High German

Etymology

Probably related to wegan (“to move, carry, bear”)

Noun

wacko ?

1. rock, boulder

Alternative forms

• waggo

Related terms

• wegan