looney tunes
looney tunes · more looney tunes · most looney tunes
Loony, crazy, insaneLoony, crazy, insane.
Meaning
1 senses(colloquial, humorous)Loony, crazy, insane.
1988, Denise Ohio, The Finer Grain, Naiad Press, →ISBN, page 23, He'd look at me sort of sideways and say all the time, you're losing it, Amy, honey, you are going looney tunes.
2002, Tony Spivey, Covered Ground, Iriswhite Publishing, →ISBN, page 12, I thought him crazy. / Pure looney tunes.
Origin
Extension of loony by reference to the cartoon series Looney Tunes.Extension of loony by reference to the cartoon series Looney Tunes.
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Forms
more looney tunes, most looney tunes| Comparative | more looney tunes Lesson |
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regular
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedlooney-tunes
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.