Crazy vs Wacko - What's the difference?
crazy | wacko |
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.
(British, dated) hurrah
* 1952 , Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire
*:"Wacko ! There's a whole pile of letters for me," Jennings cried excitedly, hopping from one foot to the other.
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As adjectives the difference between crazy and wacko
is that crazy is insane; lunatic; demented while wacko is amusingly eccentric or irrational.As nouns the difference between crazy and wacko
is that crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot while wacko is an amusingly eccentric or irrational person.As an adverb crazy
is very, extremely.As an interjection wacko is
hurrah.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.