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Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
cracked
nuts
bats
buggy
crackers
daft
balmy
nutty
dotty
wacky
insane
Not functioning properly.
wrong
amiss
awry
malfunctioning
nonfunctional
Synonyms
Examples for "
cracked
"
cracked
nuts
bats
buggy
crackers
Examples for "
cracked
"
1
The right words won't come, but I need you. His voice
cracked
.
2
Private polling shows the Libs' candidate has never
cracked
40 per cent.
3
Plasterboard would have
cracked
,
they say, or required 14 different movement joints.
4
He stared at me a good long time, then
cracked
a grin.
5
Not long ago, she would've felt satisfied that Corinne had finally
cracked
.
1
And the first man said, 'Perhaps we should feed him some
nuts
.
'
2
The general belief that
nuts
are an expensive food is an error.
3
I have altogether 3 quarts of select
nuts
stored in the refrigerator.
4
One day I was gathering
nuts
in the garden by the wall-
5
The manner in which the bird opens these
nuts
is very curious.
1
Graves said the society wanted the subdivision's design to protect the
bats
.
2
And I thank you for driving the
bats
away in the meantime.
3
At dusk there's a good chance of seeing badgers,
bats
and deer.
4
And that pavement is the camping-ground of the army of the
bats
.
5
Tells about how
bats
are essential to rain forests and to food.
1
Faced with a
buggy
product, people often choose to use the alternative.
2
Children are welcome, with a play area, organised activities and
buggy
-
friendly
paths.
3
May through July can yield good days, but it will be
buggy
.
4
My three children all used a
buggy
over the age of two.
5
He looked across the prairie towards the young man in the
buggy
.
1
Channel 10 weather presenter Tim Bailey said: Clover Moore is absolutely
crackers
.
2
Her food supplies consisted of a water bottle, some fruit, and
crackers
.
3
We shoot
crackers
in China when evil spirits come in the air.
4
Over the grave he beats gongs and sets off packs of
fire-
crackers
.
5
Manipulating the phone's operating system will not help would-be
crackers
break in.
1
I'm not
daft
.
Why
will it be difficult?I think a number of reasons.
2
And the first one said, 'Come on, shift it, you
daft
cunt.
3
Ye speak
daft
.
She upended the cup and took a long drink.
4
I didn't expect anyone to be
daft
enough to take it seriously.
5
Please don't be
daft
enough to think that this game is over.
1
Especially since I shall soon be enjoying the
balmy
weather of Greece!
2
Floor-to-ceiling windows all around us are open to the
balmy
sea air.
3
Now a year later she sunned herself in the
balmy
Nevada air.
4
The air was
balmy
,
with a tang of the sea in it.
5
Others will only venture out on one of those rare,
balmy
days.
1
That's why he'd thought the girl had seemed
nutty
;
he wasn't wrong.
2
Worse, the process inclines cities to underestimate costs, leading to
nutty
overruns.
3
It has a distinctive
nutty
flavor and is used as a dressing.
4
Tempeh, the
nutty
fermented soybean cake, also goes beautifully with bok choy.
5
It is a glyceryl oleate, with slight odour and a
nutty
taste.
1
Rightly so, too: rarely has Hook been in such entertainingly
dotty
form.
2
It used to drive me half
dotty
trying to think it out.
3
It may sound
dotty
but this was Ireland's answer to Carnaby Street.
4
You pretend you're
dotty
,
but you know a hawk from a handsaw.
5
He can manage this bunch of cow-punchers thet are drivin' me
dotty
.
1
The months ahead are likely to start on a rather
wacky
note.
2
A few years ago, a company called Spaceflight had a
wacky
plan.
3
One year I even participated in, and won, the
wacky
wellies competition.
4
As
wacky
as that is, it does have a link to reality.
5
And did he accept that signing the petition was a bit
wacky
?
1
Turkey needs a
fruity
wine with not too much tannin to shine.
2
Ruby port A good entry-level port -affordable, accessible, fresh and
fruity
.
3
Time now to join our Minister of all things
fruity
,
Glenn Forsyth
4
Maybe - but this
fruity
South African slips down with amazing ease.
5
It perked up the market for a full,
fruity
cheese with snap.
1
Belize's prime minister has rejected the allegations, calling McAfee paranoid and
bonkers
.
2
TLC 4 exemplifies exactly how
bonkers
the WWE was at the time.
3
She then explained: Cause it was
bonkers
,
beyond and insanely amazingly good.
4
I just aspire to be as utterly batshit
bonkers
as Maradona is.
5
It's essentially the most brilliant and
bonkers
art show in the world.
1
We're all
batty
about cress salad-and ,say ,thatreminds me of something!
2
Again that black look of crevasse; the
batty
darkness under the meadow.
3
Taylor-Johnson's genius was to handle such
batty
trash with pace and class.
4
He's been going
batty
for weeks trying to turn you in.
5
The guy who thought he was Nicola Tesla was clearly
batty
.
1
He hadn't explained, however, why the local
loony
bin bore their name.
2
You going off to California, me going off to the
loony
bin.
3
He delivered a very effective
loony
thriller with Red Eye in 2005.
4
I was
loony
,
I tell you, when we met the mission priest.
5
Hassan walked this
loony
valley, he had to wake up by himself.
1
It presents as a large cystic mass with
loco
-
regional
and distant spread.
2
Frank conducted us with his baton while we recited our
loco
lyrics.
3
In
loco
parentis was how I felt; the man to his boy.
4
From the cab of the little green wheezing
loco
,
the driver waved.
5
The moralists of the dark times, preceptorum sancti voluere parentis esse
loco
.
1
Or are the characters scrapped altogether for a new
loopy
love story?
2
BP Valenzuela's sweet-voiced and
loopy
,
techy pop music is far from basic.
3
Lucy, a
loopy
blast of kinetic energy, is perfect modern multiplex fodder.
4
This was not the
kind
-
if
-
loopy
man she remembered from her last visit.
5
And there were the three
loopy
things riding the bracelet's upper edge.
1
In the end Danny Boyle and his UK-Mumbai
barmy
army breezed it.
2
Jed wanted to shout out how
barmy
the pair of them were.
3
If you're going to blame anyone, blame that poor,
barmy
bitch Jenny.
4
These calculations come not from
barmy
sceptics, but from the IPCC's lead authors.
5
His reforms may be
barmy
,
but some people believe in them.
1
His views might have been less
kooky
if he hadn't left England.
2
She's got the kind of
kooky
outsider vibe Drag Race fans love.
3
Thrilled to be rid of
kooky
Aria Montgomery once and for all.
4
But it seems this movement is bigger than just one
kooky
designer.
5
A
kooky
girl with a big heart and wicked turn of phrase.
1
But they do have a
whacky
scheme and a pair of Hitler's cufflinks.
2
She was known as Mad Madge for her seemingly
whacky
theories.
3
Am I being a
whacky
parent, or were there others that thought like me?
4
By Joe Schmidt standards, it seems almost wild and
whacky
.
5
The Chief muttered, Something
whacky
here... come round, you!
1
Look,
kookie
,
move it.
2
The fortunes aren't as good as the ones
Kookie
King uses.
3
To avoid becoming the next
"
Kookie
,
"
he brought his potential teen idol career to a screeching halt.
4
"All came from a company called
Kookie
King," Mooney said.
5
An intelligent chief, hearing of our intention, offered to accompany us himself, and lent us two of his
kookies
to carry our baggage.
1
The wind whistled keenly
round
the
bend
of the river as the
2
The wheels drew nearer, then the vicarage pony-carriage came
round
the
bend
.
3
A huge bus now swung into view from further
round
the
bend
.
4
The four streaked upstairs and vanished
round
the
bend
of the staircase.
5
If Dominique now, or I, as these English came
round
the
bend
-
1
The lights of the steamboat had long since disappeared
around
the
bend
.
2
Up ahead, a long line of floating docks wrapped
around
the
bend
.
3
Listening
around
the
bend
,
he could hear the sounds of their approach.
4
Stepping away from the wall Hodak threw the boomerang
around
the
bend
.
5
Another great tower was
around
the
bend
,
just beyond the eastern gate.
1
I try to follow his words, but my thoughts are going
haywire
.
2
In a fire test prior to opening, the safety mechanisms went
haywire
.
3
I'd probably go
haywire
if I had to talk about it tonight.
4
At most companies when something goes
haywire
,
they call their IT department.
5
It appeared that the Law of Diminishing Returns was going
haywire
too.
6
This has happened before too, except the needle usually just goes
haywire
.
7
The overhead lights had gone
haywire
and kept flickering on and off.
8
And when markets go
haywire
,
that can change your life and mine.
9
All the raging teenage hormones in her body went
haywire
around him.
10
Other received notions of women being haunted and going
haywire
are floated.
11
ECCO received reports of a quar- ter million computers going
haywire
yesterday.
12
Civilian air traffic has reported several instances of their navigation systems going
haywire
.
13
Which we'll probably all need if something goes
haywire
with these nuclear reactions.
14
A bank computer goes
haywire
and starts transferring money into the wrong account.
15
If something goes
haywire
,
don't be too anxious about fixing everything right away.
16
But sometimes things go
haywire
the second I walk by them.
haywire
go haywire
little haywire
totally haywire
completely haywire
dangerously haywire