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stir-crazy
adjective
Slang.
restless or frantic because of confinement, routine, etc.: I was stir-crazy after just two months of keeping house.
More about stir-crazy
Feeling a little stir-crazy? Unpleasant though it may be, the restlessness that this familiar term calls to mind today is a far cry from the state of literal imprisonment it named upon entering English. A 1908 dictionary of unsavory terms called Criminal Slang听诲别蹿颈苍别诲 stir-crazy (noun) as聽“a man whose mind has become affected by serving long sentences.” By the mid-1900s, stir-crazy was being used as an adjective to mean “mentally ill because of long imprisonment.” The stir in stir-crazy does not suggest movement or agitation, as one might presume based the verb stir “to move around briskly” or “to be emotionally affected”; here, stir is a slang term for prison. The origin of stir is uncertain, but some sources suggest it as a shortening of the Romani noun sturiben “prison” or verb staripen “to imprison”; others connect it to the Start, a nickname for the Newgate prison in London, which later broadened to mean prison more generally.
how is stir-crazy used?
By now, let’s聽hope you鈥檙e safely ensconced at home鈥攇oing聽a little stir-crazy, perhaps, but doing your part to 鈥渇latten the curve.鈥�
You may be trying to work from home with your stir-crazy children, and聽all your previous rules about screen time聽may need to get tossed.
stir-crazy
primaveral
adjective
of, in, or pertaining to the early springtime.
More about primaveral
The adjective primaveral is a derivative of the noun primavera 鈥渟pring (the season),鈥� found in just about all the Romance languages: Italian (end of the 12th century), Catalan (13th century), Spanish (14th century), and Portuguese (16th century); even Romanian has 辫谤颈尘膬惫补谤膬. The Romance forms ultimately derive from the Latin neuter plural adjective and noun phrase pr墨ma v膿ra, literally 鈥渇irst springs.鈥� It is common for Latin neuter plural nouns to become feminine singulars in Romance, e.g., Latin gaudia 鈥渄elights, joys,鈥� becoming singular joie in French and gioia in Italian. Primaveral entered English in the 19th century.
how is primaveral used?
Crocuses planted in clusters or in thick rows, or scattered on banks, have a brilliant effect in the sunshine of a bright primaveral day.
It is the urge of Spring鈥攖he primaveral force that inspires the young and mocks the aged.
primaveral
lunker
noun
something unusually large for its kind.
More about lunker
The noun lunker has two meanings: something large and unruly, and a large game fish, especially a bass. It was originally an Americanism, and its etymology is obscure: lunk, lunkhead, and clunker have all been suggested. Lunker entered English in the second half of the 19th century.
how is lunker used?
Do black holes, such as the lunker in our own Milky Way Galaxy … drive the evolution of galaxies around them; or do galaxies naturally nurture the gravitational gobblers at their centers … ?
As sure as I鈥檓 standing here, ten pounds; what a little lunker for a first baby.
lunker