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Craze vs Cracka - What's the difference?

craze | cracka |

As nouns the difference between craze and cracka

is that craze is craziness; insanity while cracka is (us|pejorative|racial slur|slang) (impoverished white person).

As a verb craze

is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

craze

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Craziness; insanity.
  • A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
  • Verb

    (craz)
  • To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • * Milton
  • Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
  • To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • * Tillotson
  • any man that is crazed and out of his wits
  • * Shakespeare
  • Grief hath crazed my wits.
  • To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • * Keats
  • She would weep and he would craze .
  • (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • * Milton
  • God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.
  • (intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  • cracka

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (US, pejorative, racial slur, slang) (impoverished white person)