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doolally
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"insane, eccentric," British slang, by 1917 in the armed services and in full doolally tap (with Urdu word for "fever"), from Deolali , near Bombay, India, which was a military camp (established 1861) with a large barracks and a chief staging point for ...
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Doolally or Dolally may refer to: Deolali , India, former site of a British Army transit camp The Deolali transit camp itself "Doolally", originally "doolally tap", meaning to 'lose one′s mind', derived from the boredom felt at the Deolali British Army ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context chiefly UK English) insane, mad or eccentric.
Usage examples of doolally.
The police took details, a description, and a photograph, and were mildly reassuring, reminding him that people often went a bit doolally around Christmastime, it was well known.