喜樂美語

One way to hold loony is as a short, cheap word for something that has come off the normal track. A plan that cannot work has come off it. A price nobody would pay has come off it. The word can also be pointed at a person, and that is where it stops being light: the source marks that use offensive, because the insult borrows the idea of a mind that is not working. Both the adjective and the noun sit in the same place — casual speech, comedy, older fiction — and neither belongs in careful writing.

「loony」可以想成一個很隨口的字，用來說「這東西脫離了正常軌道」。行不通的計畫脫軌了。沒人願意付的價錢也脫軌了。同一個字也可以指著人說，那就不輕鬆了。來源資料把指人的用法標成 offensive，因為它借用的是「腦子不正常」這個意思。形容詞和名詞住在同一個地方：口語、喜劇、比較舊的小說。兩個都不適合出現在正式的文字裡。

From the word’s history

The source gives loony as a shortened form of lunatic, and says it is likely also connected to loon plus -y. That is where the off-the-track feeling comes from.

來源資料說 loony 是 lunatic 剪短來的，也可能跟 loon 加 -y 有關。那種「不在正常軌道上」的味道就是從這裡帶過來的。

Wiktionary, "loony"

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同家族的字

a loonier looniest

n loonies

意思相反

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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

loonyadj/ˈluːni/

  • 1

    offensivederogatoryinformalInsane.

    • loony scheme
    • completely loony
  • 2

    offensivederogatoryinformalVery silly, absurd.

loonynoun/ˈluːni/

  • 1

    offensivederogatoryinformalAn insane or very foolish person.

    • Why, there’s hundreds of lunies of the sort to be met in London.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。