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Loony   /lˈuni/   Listen
noun
loony  n.  Someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
Synonyms: crazy, looney, weirdo, psycho.


adjective
loony  adj.  
1.
Crazy; insane; lunatic; mentally unsound. (Low, U.S.) (Written also loony, luny and looney) See Luny.
2.
Very foolish; very impractical; as, loony ideas.


Luny  adj.  (Written also loony and looney)  Crazy; insane; mentally unsound. (Low, U.S.)





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"Loony" Quotes from Famous Books



... can keep walkin' I—I seem to part way forget—to forget the stuff, you know. When I'm alone in my room I go 'most crazy—pretty nigh loony. . . . But there! I don't know why I got to talkin' like this to you, Cap'n Lote. ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... fat soils of our marsh land, and there, maybe, find convenient prey amongst the idle and inebriate brethren who forget their vows, or the sottish loony who from the plough tail seek the ale house. And moreover there be your fiends, long and slim, and comely in garb, with tails of graceful curve, and horns like a comely heifer. Natheless their teeth be sharp and their claws fierce. But they hide them, for they would ...
— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake
... his beer-glass and reflected. The two were seated in the office of Swan's Hotel. "Well, I took them bricks out an' it seems that loony ol' Frenchman our grandpas use to blow about had hid a box ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... and easy," demurred the prudent officer, "but if that man hasn't gone clean loony then I'm no jedge. I don't reckon I'm goin' to charge ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... saw one that was part green and she bought it. Then she said she'd take it right along in her car. Said she had a friend that was as loony about cats as she was and she was goin' to fetch her right down the very next day. And a couple of hours after she'd gone Nate and his boy came back with a clothes basket with a board over the top and loaded in the balance of the family and went off with 'em. I ain't seen a hair of ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln


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