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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A foolish or eccentric person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is cracked or impaired intellectually; a crazy fellow.
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Examples
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True, Esther had bashed him with a cook pot, but one great advantage in having a peckerwood crackbrain on your side was the fact that his motivations had nothing to do with rationality.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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True, Esther had bashed him with a cook pot, but one great advantage in having a peckerwood crackbrain on your side was the fact that his motivations had nothing to do with rationality.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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True, Esther had bashed him with a cook pot, but one great advantage in having a peckerwood crackbrain on your side was the fact that his motivations had nothing to do with rationality.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Whether it was some crackbrain scribbler who tried to prove Poe
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Such a crackbrain as thou art, I never saw the like to it.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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No doubt it is a sad thing for a man to part with his self-control, but I happen to hold a brief for the crackbrain, and I say that there is not any man living who can afford to be too contemptuous, for no one knows when his turn may come to make a disastrous slip.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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Because I’m going to prove I’m the biggest crackbrain of all, if it’s the last thing I do.
Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009
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Because I’m going to prove I’m the biggest crackbrain of all, if it’s the last thing I do.
Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009
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To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion.
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