Crake vs Crazy - What's the difference?
crake | crazy |
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
* The Mirror for Magistrates
Insane; lunatic; demented.
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), (Hudibras)
* , chapter=5
, title= Out of control.
Overly excited or enthusiastic.
* R. B. Kimball
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Unexpected; surprising.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
* Macaulay
* Addison
* Jeffrey
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
As nouns the difference between crake and crazy
is that crake is any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills while crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.As a verb crake
is to cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.As an adjective crazy is
insane; lunatic; demented.As an adverb crazy is
very, extremely.crake
English
Alternative forms
* CrakeEtymology 1
From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)Derived terms
* Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crakeVerb
(crak)Etymology 2
See crackVerb
(crak)- Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Anagrams
* *crazy
English
Adjective
(er)- Over moist and crazy brains.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
- Piles of mean and crazy houses.
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
- They got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.