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crazy-pated

crazy-pated adjective: having lost one's wits; crazy, gone mad.

Adjective

crazy-pated (comparative more crazy-pated, superlative most crazy-pated)

  1. Having lost one's wits; crazy, gone mad.
    • The Truth is, the Scheme itſelf ſeems rather to be chimerical Plan of ſome crazy-pated Politicians, than a ſolid Project of any Men of Senſe, or in their Wits.1722 November 21, J. Hungerford, quotee, “The Trial of Chistopher Layer […]”, in A Collection Of the moſt Remarkable Trials of Persons […], London: […] T. Read, […], published 1735, page 88
    • Old James is driving Turkeys o'er the green, / Our crazy-pated dairy-maid juſt now / Is ſcribbling o'er theſe ſenſeleſs lines to you.1789 November, Janet Little, “An Epistle to a Lady”, in The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid, Air [Ayr, Scotland]: John & Peter Wilson, published 1792, page 128

Examples of crazy-pated in a sentence

  • Having the brain cracked or crazy, crazy-pated, impaired in intellect.1893, “Crack-brained”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [Oxford English...
  • As for that dear crazy-pated girl's dream, that it resulted from some indiscreet utterance of Mr.1917, William De Morgan, chapter XII, in The Old Madhouse, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, published 1919, page 173:
  • He and his crazy-pated cronies have raided Campbell lands yet again and driven another hundred fat cattle into Glencoe byres."1973, Donald McGhie, The Red Hand of the Macdonalds, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, page 77:

Forms of crazy-pated

comparativemore crazy-pated
superlativemost crazy-pated

Origin of crazy-pated

Compound of crazy + pated (“having a particular type of head”).

Questions about crazy-pated

What does crazy-pated mean?
Crazy-pated means having lost one's wits; crazy, gone mad.
How do you use crazy-pated in a sentence?
Having the brain cracked or crazy, crazy-pated, impaired in intellect.
What part of speech is crazy-pated?
Crazy-pated is an adjective.

Words near crazy-pated in the dictionary

  1. crazy up
  2. crazy water
  3. crazy-ass
  4. crazy-making
  5. crazy-pants
  6. crazy-pated
  7. crazy-paved
  8. crazyhead
  9. crazyheads
  10. crazyhouse
  11. crazying up

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