loony
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortened from lunatic, and likely also from loon ("rascal", and also the bird) + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]loony (comparative loonier, superlative looniest)
- (informal, offensive, derogatory, of a person) Insane.
- loony scheme
- completely loony
- They dismissed his loony ideas.
- The movie is full of loony characters.
- 2016 November 28, Steve Tobak, “The Media Is Overcome With Trumpphobia”, in Fox Business[1], New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 8 November 2020:
- CNN’s Christiane Amanpour took the press corps’ Trumpphobia a loony step further last week, saying the former real estate mogul represents an “existential threat” to the media. She’s apparently fearful that they’re all going to end up “in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prison … and then who knows?”
- (informal, offensive, derogatory, of a thing) Very silly, absurd.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:insane
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]insane
very silly — see silly
Noun
[edit]loony (plural loonies)
- (informal, offensive, derogatory) An insane or very foolish person.
- 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
- Why, there’s hundreds of lunies of the sort to be met in London.
Translations
[edit]an insane or very foolish person
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