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
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
