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Crazy   /krˈeɪzi/   Listen
adjective
Crazy  adj.  
1.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. "Piles of mean andcrazy houses." "One of great riches, but a crazy constitution." "They... got a crazy boat to carry them to the island."
2.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. "Over moist and crazy brains."
3.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. (Colloq.) "The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."
Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; called also funny bone.
Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.





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"Crazy" Quotes from Famous Books



... to ask you if you're crazy about him, or anything like that," Mr. Rayne said, half-laughing, "but do you take to him, do you think you will be friends? That's what I'd like ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... tell, if I know! But don't be reckless and do anything so crazy as that," cried Rose, in ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... "He drives me crazy with his didoes, when he is in the house," she used to say; "and when he is out of it I am expecting every minute that some one will bring him ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... is perfectly crazy! Fly with me ...? What would be the use of that? Didn't you say yourself that he would know how to find me wherever I went? If you were with me, he would find you too. It would be a great deal more sensible for each of us ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... were all three exceptionally accomplished musicians, and seem to have been well known in the higher social circles of the musical world. One of the sisters was the authoress of many once well known songs, especially of one song called "Crazy Jane," which had a considerable vogue in its day. I remember hearing old John Cramer say that my mother-in-law could, while hearing a numerous orchestra, single out any instrument which had played a ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope


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