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    [Adjective]  | "loo*ny" | \ ˈlü-nē \


    1: foolish, eccentric


    Origin: 1841 ;

     By shortening & alteration from lunatic;

    [Adjective]  | "loony tunes" 


    1: loony


    Origin: 1971 ;

    [Noun]  | "loony bin" 


    1: an institution providing care to mentally ill individuals : a psychiatric hospital


    Origin: 1919 ;

    [Noun]  | "loony" 


    1: one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind;


      * e.g., " ... his insistence that aliens were monitoring his thoughts forced us to conclude that he was in fact a loony "



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    [Adjective]  | "loony" 


    1: showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment;


      * e.g., " ... that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard "





    2: having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind;


      * e.g., " ... I probably sound like a loony talking to myself like I do "





    [Adjective]  | "loony tunes" 


    1: having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind;


      * e.g., " ... anyone living alone in that remote cabin would be sure to go loony tunes "





     [ "loony" ]

    1:  short for "lunatic". A crazy person. This term is derived from the phrase "crazy as a loon".

      * e.g.,  ...  The loony is on the grass. 


     [ "loony" ]

    2:  in Canada this word denotes a 1 dollar coin that has a loon bird on one side. A Canadian 2 dollar coin, which has a polar bear on one side is called a "toony".

      * e.g.,  ...  At the University of Toronto I talked to a student there and I mentioned seeing the word "loonies" on a video game in a bar nearby. I told her that in America a loony is a lunatic, that the word means that someone is nuts. She said it used to mean that in Canada too, but the meaning changed when the coins were introduced. 

     [ "loony" ]

    1: a person whos crazy

      * e.g.,  ... someone like size tha loony 

     [ "loony" ]

    1: Another name for Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. It's a nickname that she got from being so quirky.

      * e.g.,  ... Peeves:Potter luuuuurves Loony! 

     [ "loony" ]

    1: A Canadian dollar coin.

      * e.g.,  ... I'll give ya a loony for that samich. 

     [ "loony" ]

    1: Someone who thinks they are effected by the phases of the moon - especially a full moon

      * e.g.,  ... You must be a loony 

     [ "loonie" ]

    1: A Canadian dollar coin, so named, because it has the image of a wild loon on its face, and Queen Elizabeth on the other, it's hard to tell which is which.

      * e.g.,  ... Shoot me a loonie for a pop, I'm thirsty. 

     [ "Loony" ]

    1: Goofy, crazy.

      * e.g.,  ... Mick: Steve's acting a little loony; now he's always talking about this get-rich quick scheme that he brought home from work and how he really wants each of us to have a piece of it. I'm not sure if he's joking or what. 


     [ "Loony" ]

    2: I guess it could also mean 'like a loon (the bird)', but what would that be saying?

      * e.g.,  ... Stan: You can never tell with that guy. 

     [ "Loony" ]

    1: A lunatic more crazy than a lunatic

      * e.g.,  ... George:oh wow Sara is acting real loony today 

     [ "loonies" ]

    1: The word "loony" comes from the retarded superstition that staring at the moon will make you batshit crazy. It can mean one of 2 things:

      * e.g.,  ... Famous current loonies include: Ann Coulter, John Ashcroft, Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Osama bin Laden, and all other fundies, Nazis, and people involved with (or seriously believing the rhetoric of) the Church of Voodoo Pharmacology. 


     [ "loonies" ]

    2: 1)Someone who disagrees with you, and who you do not wish to speak to or listen to. This term can be used by nancy boys and douchebags such as fundies, generally to refer to lib'rals.

      * e.g.,  ... The most common relatively sane person to be an alleged loony is Michael Moore, who contrary to Republican beliefs is not actually insane, but simply obese and incoherent. 


     [ "loonies" ]

    3: 2)Someone who is demonstrably delusional or psychotic. Often these people will disguise their psychosis as a political ideology, generally blaming various groups of scapegoats for all their problems based on negligible or nonexistent evidence.

     [ "LOONY" ]

    1: An alcoholic pervert with shit feet who speaks to himself who where’s a shirt to work and drinks chicken soup

      * e.g.,  ... Does the loony run the insitu or does the insitu run the loony? 

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