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crackpotitude

noun

Etymology

From crackpot + -itude.

  1. inherited from *budnós✻
  2. inherited from *puttaz✻
  3. derived from *pott✻
  4. derived from pot — “pot”
  5. inherited from pott
  6. inherited from pot
  7. compounded as crackpot — “crack + pot”
  8. suffixed as crackpotitude — “crackpot + itude”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being crackpot.

    • Consider, for instance, the number of freak-show images that occur in this suite, sourced from a global underground of crackpotitude.
    • Her blog and other online activities have elements of journalism, elements of gadfly crackpotitude, and elements of a shakedown racket, and she is a very persistent adversary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crackpotitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA