Etymologies
- shortened form of doolally tap (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The DYDA DISPATCHES: CBI goes doolally skip to main | skip to sidebar”
“Why, just last week, Corbin Bleu barfed up both of his adrenal glands because of the stress of belting out Get'cha Head in the Game again and again, and now Zac Efron's appendix has gone all doolally as well.”
“We can has slytlee tarnishd goldfsh; teddybaers wiz scairee eys; an pokit puzzuls taht send yu doolally!”
And dis button activates mah - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“In the same way that people who hate football are enraged when the world goes doolally over footie tournaments, I am enraged by chrissmass.”
“Plentyoffish hat mehr als 1,1 Milliarden von 45 Millionen Besuchern [...] doolally Says:”
“Are you getting lazier in your old age? doolally Says:”
“Also consider adding the 2007 equivalent of a Community Evangelist, not sure what the name of the hip title for that position is right now. “blogger”? doolally Says:”
“I find it strange that an online company does not have facilities to cancel subscriptions online. doolally Says:”
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“It is among a clutch of the men, striking postures of lofty, measured, keyboard generals that there is a doolally atmosphere.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“For dating sites I think it will flop. doolally Says:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doolally’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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razomrix's Words
c, amurny, iceblink, auchtermuchty, cacchio, menatal, strem, adore, no!, arse, hill, neck and 67 more...
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molotov
chiaroscuro, sitzbank, cigarette, balcony, sláinte, alfresco, *punch*, grin, babble, molotov, c'mere, kitschy and 57 more...
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zero
a, strem, menatal, bollocks, arse, och, aye, shutup, orange, black, grey, gold and 46 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Adj. Mad, crazy, insane. A shortening of doolally tap, a madness that afflicted British soldiers in Deolali, India. There's speculation as to whether the soldiers went mad whilst stationed there, awaiting the troop ship home, or that they were sent to the sanatorium there after going mad. Cf 'tapped'. Late 1800s"
- peevish.co.uk Sep 18, 2008