Looney

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This word needs a revival.

― Graham, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a friend who's last name is Loney. Half the time people think its Looney.

― Chris, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sp 'luny'

― Josh, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

loony/looney/luny.

from loon or lunatic.

sometimes embellished with a suffix of "-kaboony" in glasgow.

― RJG, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon (you wouldn't call him a looney); furthermore, Dawn Palethorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

― C J, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sometimes embellished with a suffix of "-kaboony" in glasgow.

Or, never.

― david h(0wie), Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OCCASIONALLY.

― RJG, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or... never.

― david h(0wie), Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

CJ lurvs Python = CJ is cool. So I think.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

david howie=loony-kaboony

― RJG, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bigballoon.nl/looneytunes/beeld1/bugs.gif

― sp. 'Coortbane', Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Looney is of course (as we all know) derived from the Latin 'luna' meaning moon - in the belief that a person's madness fluctuated with the phases of the moon.

This cannot be true however, as I am a looney all the time.

― C J, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This cannot be true however, as I am a looney all the time.

Amen, CJ! At least, I'm no longer a mad person of one. Tis a comfort;>

― Nichole Graham, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely not, Nicole! We should start a Club or something.

And welcome to Camden, btw. I am not terribly near there myself, but hear it's quite a nice place. I saw the weather forecast this evening, and they have promised the rain will stop soon. Honestly!

― C J, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I accidentally pulled out a Coortbane plant while weeding a bed of Raggettwort the other day. Such fog we're having!

― felicity, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

! Oh my.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know! The weeds have nearly choked out my St. Nitsuh's Lace.

― felicity, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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