wackadoodle

English

Alternative forms

• whackadoodle

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Adjective

wackadoodle (comparative more wackadoodle, superlative most wackadoodle)

1. (slang, derogatory) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
   • 2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     Within an hour, forty people were stuffed into his apartment, all carrying gifts, dressed for a party, and it quickly became obvious he'd prearranged a party for himself and not told me. Okay. That's a bit wackadoodle.

   • 2009, Claire Mysko, Magali Amadeï, Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 175:

     You will discover this soon, if you haven't already: Exposure to pregnancy and moms with newborns often causes otherwise rational people to say and do inexplicably inane things (and don't even get us started on the people who started out not-so-rational; they turn completely wackadoodle).

   • 2010, Robyn Okrant, Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk‎^[1], Center Street, →ISBN:

     I thought that was totally wackadoodle. How could they possibly love someone they've never met?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wackadoodle.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Noun

wackadoodle (plural wackadoodles)

1. (slang, derogatory) A crazy, irrational, or eccentric person.
   • 2013, Meg Tilly, A Taste of Heaven‎^[2], Puffin, →ISBN:

     "It's not funny, Mom! I use that mitt all the time. What kind of wackadoodle poops in her sister's baseball glove, for crying out loud?"

   • 2014, Caren S. Dillman, I Lost My Marbles: A Personal Story of Childhood Betrayal, Secrecy, Shame & Restoration, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 85:

     Once I was in the program, I was assigned a psychologist for psych testing to determine whether I was a true wackadoodle.

   • 2015, Suzan Saxman, Perdita Finn, The Reluctant Psychic, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     I've had some bad neighbors, real wackadoodles, but I can't imagine wanting to actually off any of them.

   • 2020, Frank Bruni, Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos‎^[3]:

     That’s the question at the heart of [Donald Trump's] re-election bid, because his strategy isn’t really “law and order” or racism or a demonization of liberals as monument-phobic wackadoodles or a diminution of Joe Biden as a doddering wreck.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:mad person.

Related terms

• wackadoo
• whackadoo