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  • proper noun An Irish surname, common in the south west of the country.

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Examples

  • After all, everybodyin Looney Tunes had a speech impediment — Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, etc.

    For My F-Fellow St-Stutterers Con Chapman 2010

  • Somewhere in a remote Pakistan village Bin Looney is chuckling gleefully at his incredible luck.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006

  • To paraphrase Tom Hanks, there's no leadership in Looney Tunes.

    February 2005 2005

  • To paraphrase Tom Hanks, there's no leadership in Looney Tunes.

    Now This Is A Bad Idea 2005

  • After reading several of these inane posts, there is no doubt why the Democratic Party is known as the Looney Left.

    Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore 2006

  • And, last I checked, the WSJ was not part of your so-called Looney Left; Bloomberg either for that matter.

    News & Record Article Feed 2010

  • Jeunot's ludicrous stance on gun control is just the tip of his naivety iceberg, as he shoves his politics down your throat via characters who can only be described as Looney Tunes mimes.

    Cinema Blend Feeds 2010

  • Mark Looy [mjh: pronounced "Looney"] — the guide and a vice president at the museum … [says], “We call him our ‘missionary lizard,’” Looy says.

    mjh's blog — 2005 — September 2005

  • Plus, the action is the right kind of Looney Tunes.

    Monster House Rogers 2006

  • So he set to work, thinking of her and of his sorrows, until the word "Looney," in connection with his suffering, flashed across his memory.

    Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte 1869

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