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crackpot
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mentally unbalanced person," 1898, probably from crack (v.) + pot (n.1) in a slang sense of "head." Compare crack-brain "crazy fellow" (late 16c.). Earlier it was used in a slang sense "a small-time big-shot" (1883), and by medical doctors in reference ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crank , nut , nut case , nutcase , fruitcake , screwball ]
Usage examples of crackpot.
Soon the Crackpot gave a little laugh, did a small dance step, and skipped out of sight across the street and around the corner.
The Crackpot looked around in alarm, saw his neighbors smiling at his discomfort, and looked back at Themus, who had stopped directly in front of him.
The Crackpot wore a shirt and slacks of motley, a flat mortarboard-type hat askew over his forehead.
He went to one end, began moving each Crackpot a bit forward or backward till they were all approximately in the same positions of the line.
Inside the shop Darfla spoke briefly to a tall, thin Crackpot in black half-mask and bodytight black suit.
He was marveling at the endless varieties of clothing when the tall, thin Crackpot slid back up the pole.
Stuff for a good many years, Themus, before I realized the Crackpot in me wanted out.
The invisible Conger, avoiding crackpot writers and serving robots, approached the alcove.
The Crackpot opened his mouth once, strangled a bit, closed his mouth, strangled a bit, opened his mouth again.
Darfla spoke briefly to a tall, thin Crackpot in black half-mask and body-tight black suit.
It was not a human hand, of course, and the more the studied it, the more he began to wonder if all the crackpot theories, all the weird sightings, all the fantastic tales were true.
People had a right to their views, however crackpot, as long as they stayed peaceable.
By the end of 1949 Project Grudge claimed that all reports to date had been delusions, illusions, mirages, hysteria, hoaxes, and crackpot tales.
Some rich old coot out on the West Coast, a crackpot on ecology, has just donated fifty thousand pseudo-dollars.
A young man driven so brutally by grief and horror that he had even agreed to land in Singapore on some crackpot mission or other, no doubt dreamed up by another Pryce, if there could be such a thing.