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English meaning

  • antic noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behavior; usually used in the plural.
  • bonkers adj Crazy, wild, or absurd.
  • crazy adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
  • knave noun A dishonest or deceitful man.
  • 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.
  • nut noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
  • sot noun An old-fashioned word for a habitual drunkard.
  • zany adj Wildly comic, eccentric, or amusingly outlandish in behavior or style.

Senses

zot is used for these senses in English:

  • antic (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
  • bonkers (informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.
  • crazy Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
  • knave (cards) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.
  • lunatic An insane person.
  • mad (chiefly, British Isles) Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
  • nut (slang) A crazy person.
  • zany Ludicrously or incongruously comical.

antic — full definition

  1. noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behavior; usually used in the plural.
  2. adjective Grotesque or absurd in an oddly theatrical way.
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