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Loony   Listen
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.






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"Loony" Quotes from Famous Books



... instinct, they began at once to bait one of their number, a slight youngster of twelve years, much better clothed than the rest, who had adventurously strolled in from a neighbouring manufactory. This child answered their jibes in an amiable, silly, drawling tone which seemed to justify the epithet 'Loony,' frequently applied to him. Now and then he stammered; and then companions laughed loud, and he with them. It was known that several years ago he had fallen down a flight of stone steps, alighting on the back of his head, and that ever since he had been deaf of one ear and ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

... "I've been half loony and didn't take in what you said. If that's the owner or proprietor of the Jeanne D'Arc—a man known as Monsieur Chatelard, French accent, blond, above medium size, prominent white teeth—we want him right away. He kidnapped Miss Redmond in New York, ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

... year, as you might say. I just commenced to tell about Angie Phinney, about how fast she could talk, and that reminded me of a parrot that belonged to Sylvanus Cahoon's sister—Violet, the sister's name was—loony name, too, if you ask ME, 'cause she was a plaguey sight nigher bein' a sunflower than she was a violet—weighed two hundred and ten and had a face ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... shouting after an ungainly man, who turned twice and threatened them with a stick. The Town Councillors did not interfere, and the rabble passed bawling by the Pack-horse. Long before it came the Emigrant had recognised the ungainly man. It was Dicky Loony, the town butt. He had chivvied the imbecile a hundred times in just the same fashion, yelling "Black Cat!" after him as these young imps were yelling—though why "Black Cat" neither he nor the imps could have told. But Dicky had always resented it as he resented it now, wheeling round, ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... level of the advanced countries, and all using different methods of doing it. But look at the so-called advanced countries. Up to their bottoms in problems. Juvenile delinquents, climbing crime and suicide rates, the loony-bins full of the balmy, unemployed, threat of war, spending all their money on armaments instead of things like schools. All the bloody mess of it. Why, a man from Mars ...
— I'm a Stranger Here Myself • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Loony" :   dotty, lunatic, nuts, daft, wacky, around the bend, loon, nutty, bats, nutcase, barmy, cracked, buggy, whacky, looney, colloquialism, batty, crazy, madman



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