Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An institution for the mentally ill.
- adj. Insane; crazy.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From bug + house. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from bug, enthusiast. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mart Judson, indeed, inclined strongly to the opinion that the white-haired old quartermaster was slightly "bughouse," as he expressed it.”
“I've seen some bughouse crews in my time, but this one's the limit.”
“One of the fellows that works at the stable -- you've seen 'm-- Henderson -- he lives around the corner on Fifth -- he says she's bughouse.”
“The whole thing's bughouse, that's what, an 'I almost get dippy myself thinkin' about it.”
“The whole thing's bughouse, an 'I guess I am, too.”
“Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness and the sad sordor of Experience.”
“One person that Allen met during his first days in the “bughouse,” as he called it, was a young Jewish man named Carl Solomon.”
“He was determined to rescue Lafcadio and keep him out of the clutches of the bughouse.”
“Again our choice: Either open up the decay within the system to the light of day and start the process of rebuilding and renewal, or allow the republic-ravening pestilence to continue unchallenged, hence unabated, and let the nation go bughouse crazy as the house comes down around us to the strains of the insect-brain stridulations of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bughouse’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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Temporary Lodging
Hotels, inns, and the like.
hotel, resort hotel, holiday resort, motor hotel, tourist court, motel, inn, lodge, ski lodge, motor lodge, motor inn, resort and 52 more...
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