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Meanings of zany in English
Synonyms
Examples for "goose"
Examples for "goose"
1
Never mind turkey, goose, free range chickens good as they may be.
2
The left fork would almost certainly lead him on a wild-goose chase.
3
He was in the position of the goose with the golden eggs.
4
Neither of you young things have the sense god gave a goose.
5
However, the knowledge of physiology of goose reproduction is not well documented.
1
Please may that be also the last such cuckoo letter this year.
2
Birds whirred from the heather and the cuckoo was in the wood.
3
Sir, -Am I the first to hear the cuckoo this year?
4
Each spring, the Times of London has letters about the first cuckoo.
5
The cuckoo was king of Egypt and of the whole of Phoenicia.
1
It's just about here that I was calling a Heinie a jackass.
2
It was, as Toby told us, a laughing-jackass, or a gigantic kingfisher.
3
And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling.'
4
You're the Purser, I suppose, detected keeping a jackass among the poultry!
5
Ours must be a generation that stands athwart history yelling, Hey, jackass!
1
One more minute; then he'd ask this goof to let him out.
2
He and Roland liked to goof-likedto have fun-butthey were careful.
3
You gaping goof, I don't have time to explain that to you.
4
It took several months, and there was one goof-up after another.
5
I know you think you're not worthy of it, you goof.
1
My position in the company is dependent upon this bozo's crummy opinion.
2
Which is a bozo answer -and was curious and clever in school.
3
I had to keep this bozo from bringing the hammer down.
4
He was bawling like a complete bozo, and making about as much sense.
5
This bozo probably didn't know or care whether the crops needed rain or manure.
1
Pete let the twat remark pass, and for that Jack was grateful.
2
I don't trust the twat -and, besides, we're here for us.
3
The company receptionist twat hissed, 'Call back later,' then clicked off.
4
We could be here for days waiting for this twat to get sober.'
5
If I remember correctly, that twat Níels was trying to avoid telling her.
1
I don't suppose she noticed it at all, the little fathead.
2
Then she turned to me, and with a brazen look said, 'All right, fathead.
3
Much good that would have done your wife, you fathead!
4
They studied your request and the words 'fat chance' and 'fathead' got mentioned a few times.
5
His fathead of a father called up.
1
I was a goofball, but I guess normal, and people could relate.
2
He comes across as sort of a goofball, but he's awfully intelligent.
3
Last season 93 defenders were dispossessed more often than the league's top-ranked goofball.
4
As a politician, he cultivates an image as an affable goofball.
5
He's a professional climber, filmmaker, and world-class goofball who resides in Boulder, Colorado.
Usage of zany in English
1
On the practice courts another really zany Team Murray forfeit going on.
2
Feet prints:The revival of Celia Birtwell and her zany prints continues apace.
3
So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground.
4
She had been so wild and zany when he first met her.
5
The tone is as zany and as thoughtful as everything he writes.
6
I stood staring like a zany, while black anger filled my heart.
7
But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love?
8
As the eldest, I would chair the zany conversations and set the agenda.
9
The resulting game is zany in a way that regular chess never is.
10
Doing something zany and fun will help you feel more grounded!
11
This no longer felt like one of my hilarious, zany assignments.
12
Nope, Scott has not decided to make a zany space comedy.
13
A zany, superficial, soufflé that one could barely describe as a medical drama.
14
Whoever that zany is, he shall not dance at our funeral.
15
His hair looks zany, as if he just stepped out of a tsunami.
16
But this was nothing like the zany playground free-for-all of old.
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