In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crackers
plural of cracker
(South Africa, only plural) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
crackers (comparative more crackers, superlative most crackers)
(UK, colloquial) Crazy, insane.
• See also insane
• recracks
Source: Wiktionary
Crack"er (krk"r), n.
1. One who, or that which, cracks.
2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.
3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker.
4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.
6. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The pintail duck.
7. pl. (Mach.)
Definition: A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.