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zany
English
Etymology
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ze?ni/
- Rhymes: -e?ni
- Hyphenation: za?ny
Adjective
zany (comparative zanier, superlative zaniest)
- Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
- Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
Synonyms
- wacky
Derived terms
- zaniness
Translations
Noun
zany (plural zanies)
- (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.
- Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.
Verb
zany (third-person singular simple present zanies, present participle zanying, simple past and past participle zanied)
- (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.
References
- John Dover Wilson, comp. (1911) Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 2938084.
Anagrams
- Zayn, zayn
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zayn
English
Noun
zayn (plural zayns)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Anagrams
- zany
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /??ain/, [??ã?n]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?sain/, [?sã?n]
Noun
zayn f (plural zayn)
- zayin; the Hebrew letter ?
- Synonym: zayin
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