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/krˈeɪzi kwɪlt/ Listen

adjective

Crazy adj.

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."

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. "Over moist and crazy brains."

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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Etymology of 'Crazy quilt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crazy quilt" Quotes from Famous Books

... thing that I despise it is a 'modern' house, made up of bay windows and crooked turrets, and shingled balconies, and peaked roofs, and grotesque little fandangoes of wood and copper and terra cotta, that have no more dignity or repose, or beauty or homelike appearance, than a crazy quilt or a Chinese puzzle. They are simply outrageous, abominable. I would sooner have the children brought up in a reform school or a ...

— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... resistance. He allowed them to carry him into the room indicated by his wife, and to lay him bound on the plump feather bed. It was not his bedroom but the sacred "spare room," and the bed was part of its luxury. Thekla ran in, first, to remove the embroidered pillow shams and the dazzling, silken "crazy quilt" ...

— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet

... professor Revelation is a piece of crazy quilt patchwork, so full of symbols that have no intelligent meaning, symbols that can be interpreted by twenty different expositors in twenty different ways, is so full of monsters and nightmare doings that only an unbalanced mind could have written it and one ...

— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... love to do it," declared Mabel. "But just let me show you my flag. Doesn't it look like a crazy quilt design?" and from her scout manual she unfolded a page of paper, with the required American flag drawn and colored in crayons, and not really a poor illustration ...

— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis

... which means bother or something like that, said Uncle Lucky, and he honked the horn with all his might, and, would you believe it, the bull was so frightened that he ran away and never stopped till he got home and covered himself with the crazy quilt on his ...

— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory