Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
(noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
madhouse (plural madhouses)
(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.
Synonyms: insane asylum, mental hospital, Thesaurus:mental hospital
(by extension) A chaotic place.
Source: Wiktionary
Mad"house`, n.
Definition: A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
