crackwitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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crackwit (plural crackwits)

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   • 1940, Reginald Townsend, Country Life, volume 78, page 37:

     […] rifles and pistols have been found in the possession of bund crackwits. These arms had been sold by the U. S. Government under authorization of Section 113 of the National Defense Act to supposedly responsible citizens.

   • 1959, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Tenderloin, page 137:

     "It's a tough bunch to sing to." "Crackwits," she said. "You have a wandering eye tonight, young man." "Uh?" Tommy said, recalled to himself. "Beg your pardon."

   • 1972, Glimpses of Siberia, page 14:

     Crackwits say that every household will soon cook over its own gas hole sunk in the backyard.

   • 2014, Charlie Jane Anders, The Cartography of Sudden Death:

     Ythna studied the strange red-haired woman for a moment. Her black boots were shiny but scuffed, her puffy pants had a grass stain on one knee, and her fine velvet coat had a rip in the side, which had been hastily sewn and patched. Whatever this woman was—crackwit, breakbond, or something else—she was not an assassin.