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zany adj. Comical in a clownish or buffoonish manner; whimsically comical.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Zany" Quotes from Famous Books

... zany he sounds simple-minded himself and I can't make a lick of sense out of what he's said, except I know this village ain't spelled that way. He's telling me that's the way it's spoken anyway, and about how he brought home a glass watch chain that these Bohemians blowed ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

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... small and tiny. Lawk! I never saw a man in all my life in such a taking; I could find it in my heart to pity him for all his mischief-making. To see him stand a-hammering and stammering like a zany; But what signifies apologies, if they won't mend old Chaney! If he sent her up whole crates full, from Wedgwood's and Mr. Spode's, He couldn't make amends for the crack'd mandarins and smash'd toads. Well! every one has their tastes, ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

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... came next, Tom Shadwell's dear Zany, And swears for heroics he writes best of any; Don Carlos his pockets so amply had filled, That his mange was quite cured, and his lice were all killed. But Apollo had seen his face on the stage, } And prudently did not think fit to engage } The scum of a playhouse, for the ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber

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Words linked to "Zany" : jackass, whacky, foolish, sappy, sap, fathead, wacky, goof, bozo, humourous, cockamamie, clown, cuckoo, buffoonish, colloquialism