schizzy

English

Alternative forms

• schizy

Etymology

schiz- +‎ diminutive with -y.

Adjective

schizzy (comparative more schizzy, superlative most schizzy)

1. (slang, derogatory) schizoid, schizophrenic; crazy
   • 1983, Ėduard Limonov, It's me, Eddie: a fictional memoir:

     But a Russian, in my observation, can go schizzy from just about anything, except from losing his job. She went schizzy. She was depressed for almost two years and still has her ups and downs.

   • 2003, Rex Miller, Iceman, page 77:

     Typically he's schizzy or immature or homosexual, or in the exceptional cases such as you have to deal with, a total psychotic personality.

   • 2003, Charles Goodwin, Conversation and brain damage, page 45:

     But, to cite an older example, not everything that schizophrenics say or think is "schizzy," and some of the things that are are not schizzy in principle, only in mode or degree of realization.

Derived terms

• schiziness

Translations

schizoid, schizophrenic (slang)

• Russian: шизану́тый (ru) (šizanútyj)