Crossword clues for loony
loony
- Non compos mentis
- Certifiable, so to speak
- A few bricks shy of a load
- Very foolish
- Mad as a hatter
- Bananas or nuts
- Round the bend
- Extremely foolish
- Senselessly foolish
- Bananas, crackers or nuts
- ____ tunes (crazy)
- One brick shy of a load
- More than a little silly
- More than a little foolish
- Kind of bin
- Considerably less than all there
- Canadian clam
- Trots out to lunch?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
loony \loony\ (l[=oo]n"[y^]) n. someone mentally deranged and possibly dangerous.
Syn: crazy, looney, weirdo, psycho.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also loonie, looney, 1853, American English, short for lunatic, but also influenced by loon (n.2) and perhaps loon (n.1), the bird being noted for its wild cry and method of escaping from danger. As a noun by 1884, from the adjective. Slang loony bin "insane asylum" is from 1919. Looney left in reference to holders of political views felt to be left-wing in the extreme is from 1977. Looney Tunes, Warner Bros. studios' animated cartoon series, dates from 1930.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a person English) insane. 2 (context of a thing English) Very silly, absurd. n. An insane or very foolish person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "loony".
President of the United States is a loony and that instead of simply being shacked up someplace with a cooch dancer the Secretary of Mental Health is back in Vienna in the late 19th Century.
Because the Loonies believed in wasting nothing, everything was monitored .
The unofficial census estimated that there were another 50,000 Loonies living off in the hills.
He had us visualize ourselves as a mom and her daughter , living with Samm and Janos, expecting a new baby, wearing dresses and makeup and nail polish, washing our hair together to save water, thinking that was enough-still not realizing that real Loonies saved even more water by shaving their heads.
And Loonies are disdainful enough of Earth people that most will just glance once and look away, deliberately ignoring.
The whole thing is a colossal badlands so black and ugly even Loonies shudder over it.
One dared not penetrate the jungle itself, where stinging palms and arrow vines and the deadly worms called toothers made such a venture sheer suicide for any creatures but loonies and slinkers.
Letty Madden, postmistress of Boothill, Texas, was a prime candidate for the loony bin.
Brahms I was hearing through the walls, but some loony cycle racer blaring U2, revving up his Ducati.
Those loony monks in the funny foreign building between the pawnbrokers and the shonky shop?
Intensive canvassing of the area around the Biltmore had thus far yielded no verified sightings, the records of convicted sex loonies and registered sex offenders were still being combed, the four drool case confessors were still being held at City Jail awaiting alibi checks, sanity hearings and further questioning.
Lucy Chenier, she pictured Lucille Ball, all that wild red hair, bulging eyes, and loony bullshit with Ethel Mertz.
On the second floor, protective custody, the rooms were Inspector Clouseau loony bins: barred windows, knobless doors with slots for the exchange, I supposed, of trays or papers.
With each new day, Suarez gets loonier and Carollo looks more like Alan Greenspan.
So far we loonies have been too smart to get into any wars with each other.