Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
CRAZY
crazy, wild, dotty, gaga
(adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; “crazy about cars and racing”; “they are dotty about each other”; “gaga over the rock group’s new album”
crazy
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
crazy
(adjective) bizarre or fantastic; “had a crazy dream”; “wore a crazy hat”
crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded
(adjective) foolish; totally unsound; “a crazy scheme”; “half-baked ideas”; “a screwball proposal without a prayer of working”
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
(adjective) affected with madness or insanity; “a man who had gone mad”
crazy, loony, looney, nutcase, weirdo
(noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)
(obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle. [16th–19th c.]
(obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased. [16th–19th c.]
Of unsound mind; insane, demented. [from 17th c.]
Out of control.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
Synonyms
• Thesaurus:insane
• (out of control): off the chain, nutso
• (insane; lunatic; demented): deranged, loco, nutso, zany
Adverb
crazy (comparative more crazy, superlative most crazy)
(slang) Very, extremely.
Noun
crazy (countable and uncountable, plural crazies)
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
(slang, uncountable) Eccentric behaviour; lunacy.
Synonyms
• (insane or eccentric person): lunatic, mad man, nut ball, nut case, nutso, psychopath
Source: Wiktionary
Cra"zy (kr"z), a. Etym: [From Craze.]
1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.
2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.
3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone.
– Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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