different between crazy vs whackjob

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

• wackjob
• whack job

Etymology

• whack(y) + job(bie)

Noun

whackjob (plural whackjobs)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
   • 1992: Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch

     "He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does."

   • 2003: Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War

     One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.

   • 2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie

     Ronald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs.

Synonyms

• (crazy, possibly dangerous person): basket case, freak, loony, nutjob, nutter, screwball, wacko, wingnut