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Crazy quilt   /krˈeɪzi kwɪlt/   Listen
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Crazy  adj.  
1.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. "Piles of mean andcrazy houses." "One of great riches, but a crazy constitution." "They... got a crazy boat to carry them to the island."
2.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. "Over moist and crazy brains."
3.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. (Colloq.) "The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."
Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; called also funny bone.
Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.





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"Crazy quilt" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing that I despise it is a 'modern' house, made up of bay windows and crooked turrets, and shingled balconies, and peaked roofs, and grotesque little fandangoes of wood and copper and terra cotta, that have no more dignity or repose, or beauty or homelike appearance, than a crazy quilt or a Chinese puzzle. They are simply outrageous, abominable. I would sooner have the children brought up in a reform school or a ...
— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner


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