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looney

looney is the alternative spelling of loony.

Meaning of loony

Adjective

loony (comparative loonier, superlative looniest)

  1. (derogatory, informal, offensive) Insane.
    • loony scheme
  2. (derogatory, informal, offensive) Very silly, absurd.

See all 3 meanings of loony

Proper noun capitalized: Looney

Looney (plural Looneys)

  1. A surname from Irish.

Forms of looney

Adjective
comparativemore looney
superlativemost looney
Noun
plurallooneys
Proper noun
pluralLooneys
alternative formLunney

Origin of looney

At least from 1829.

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luanaigh (“descendant of Luanach”), a personal name based on Middle Irish lúan (“light, warrior's halo, warrior”).

Words formed from looney

Phrases with looney

Questions about looney

What does looney mean?
Looney means a surname from Irish.
What is looney the alternative spelling of?
Looney is the alternative spelling of loony.
What part of speech is looney?
Looney is a proper noun.

Words near looney in the dictionary

  1. Loonans
  2. looner
  3. looneries
  4. looners
  5. loonery
  6. looney
  7. looney bin
  8. looney bins
  9. looney toon
  10. looney toons
  11. looney tunes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looney (page history and authors); Looney (page history and authors); loony (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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