crackpot
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noun
1.
a person who is eccentric, unrealistic, or fanatical.
adjective
2.
eccentric; impractical; fanatical: crackpot ideas.
Origin:
1860–65; from the phrase cracked pot
1860–65; from the phrase cracked pot
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| —n | |
| 1. | an eccentric person; crank |
| —adj | |
| 2. | (usually prenominal) eccentric; crazy |
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Crackpot
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
crackpot
1883, probably from pot in a slang sense of "head." Cf. crack-brain "crazy fellow" (c.1570).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
crackpot definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The line between crackpot and innovative is sometimes wiggly.
Whether you consider him a crackpot or not seems to hinge on how seriously you take his gold standard talk.
No way should the captain have been able to make a crackpot move by himself.
Otherwise the doctor dismisses you as a hypochondriac or crackpot, and quite rightly so.
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