Eccentric, to put it nicely

Usage examples of loopy.

Driving down the lane which led to the main village street and then to the station, Jimbo tried to remember the last occasion on which he and Loopy Drinkwater had soldiered together.

Jimbo led Loopy into the sitting room and sat him down in an armchair by the empty fireplace, then prepared a stiff brandy and soda for Loopy and a much weaker one for himself.

Jimbo set down the battered suitcase in the Blue Room, Loopy gave the bed a practice bounce.

He realised that he was quite looking forward to the next Loopy outrage, and even to the roasting that would ineluctably follow it, as the night the day.

He poured himself another, and then became aware that Loopy was sitting in an armchair, suited and trilbied, reading the Sporting Times and smoking a cigar.

Their evenings were spent cosily in the sitting room over a bottle of brandy, playing a card game that Loopy favoured called Dead Rats, which was played with three and a half decks of cards and had Byzantine rules that Jimbo never fully understood, which cost him dear.

He discovered why when he entered his drive and saw first of all an old grey Austin blocking half the garage, and second of all, Loopy at the end of the garden.

But Loopy was there, in the sunlit orchard, digging at the bottom of a new trench right next to the Mem.

Jimbo stepped sideways to give him room to work, but Loopy continued to head straight towards him.

He waved a mental hand at the flies that filled his brain, gripped Loopy firmly by the ankles, and pulled.

Loopy had said that one day an Enemy would come with false testimony, trying to do down Loopy and the Old Country.

What rotten luck, the very day after Loopy had been unavoidably called away.

Actually, old Loopy might have been on to something with this BacoFoil wheeze of his, because the ringing in his head seemed to diminish instantly.

Old Country and for Loopy Drinkwater, the best chum a chap could ever wish to have.

That enormous wet tongue caught the back of my knees as the loopy creature bumbled after us.