crack-brained

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English

Adjective

crack-brained (comparative more crack-brained, superlative most crack-brained)

  1. Alternative form of crackbrained
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. ”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108:
      I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.