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zanies
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n. (zany English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zany \Za"ny\, n.; pl. Zanies . [It. zanni a buffoon, merry-andrew, orig. same as Giovanni John, i. e., merry John, L. Ioannes, Gr. ?, Heb. Y[=o]kh[=a]n[=a]n, prop., the Lord graciously gave: cf. F. zani, fr. the Italian. Cf. Jenneting .] A merry-andrew; ...
Usage examples of zanies.
At the end, all the Celibates were catatonic, the Zanies were dead, the Pervert clubbed the Lord of Shorth to death with a stone, and the Weaver… He was a man named Meshe.
At the end, all the Celibates were catatonic, the Zanies were dead, the Pervert clubbed the Lord of Shorth to death with a stone, and the Weaver .
One of the Zanies lifted up his face and laughed a long false crooning laugh, "Ah-ah-ah-ah…"
One of the Zanies lifted up his face and laughed a long false crooning laugh, “Ah-ah-ah-ah.
While he longed to return to Yale, he felt he owed it to his country to remain in the CIA, mainly to keep the zanies, as he called them, from mucking things up.
The zanies had plans for everything, from kidnapping Mao Tse-tung and replacing him with a double, to setting off a thermonuclear explosion at Magnetogor as a way of convincing the Russians that it was not safe to stockpile nuclear weapons.
His opponent had been one of those zanies that people are naturally attracted to.
Cold and his crew of cosmic zanies would spread their propaganda in Mineral Wells, forsaking their flying lantern chimney for a black Volkswagen.