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gek — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bonkers adj Crazy, wild, or absurd.
  • crazy adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
  • daft adj Foolish, silly, or lacking good sense.
  • gig noun A single performance booking for a musician or entertainer.
  • loon noun A diving water bird known for its haunting, wailing call, found in North America and northern Europe.
  • lunatic noun A person regarded as insane or wildly irrational (now considered old-fashioned and offensive as a clinical term).
  • mad adj Angry or annoyed.
  • madman noun A man who behaves in an insane, irrational, or extremely reckless way.
  • nut noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
  • nuts adj Informal: crazy, irrational, or wildly excited.
  • silly adjective Foolish or lacking good sense; done or said in a way that invites laughter.

Senses

gek is used for these senses in English:

  • bonkers (informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.
  • crazy Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
  • daft (chiefly, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Crazy, insane, mad.
  • gig (chiefly, Britain, school slang, _, (Eton College), archaic, or) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
  • loon (slang) A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
  • lunatic An insane person.
  • mad (chiefly, British Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
  • madman A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.

crazy — full definition

  1. adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
  2. adj Informal: extremely enthusiastic about or infatuated with someone or something.
  3. noun Informal: an eccentric or irrational person.

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