stark staring bonkers adj.
absolutely crazy, thus attrib.
[ | ![]() | Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 21: ‘Thou’s stark-mad wrong, my bonny hinny’]. |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 9 July 10/3: The Rev. Worrall, who [...] was shocked to see John Murray at a recent Yarraside boxing match [...] would be driven stark, staring dippy if he put in an evening at the Sydney Stadium. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Nov. 14/4: ‘He’s shtark starin!’ sez the managemint. | |
![]() | Iceman Cometh Act I: Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving loony yet! | |
![]() | Sexus (1969) 458: I tremble when I think what it would do to me [...] I think I’d become stark-raving lunatic. | |
![]() | Look Long Upon a Monkey 77: If he’d learned Valerie was the one who’d lured him to the cosh-boys, he’d have gone stark, raving mad, but starkers. | |
![]() | Fowlers End (2001) 138: Is everybody stark staring? | |
![]() | Jennings’ Little Hut 76: I thought [...] you’d gone stark raving bats and I should have to humour you. | |
![]() | Breakfast at Tiffany’s 87: Are you starkers? | |
![]() | letter 24 May in Leader (2000) 535: Oh God I’m mad aren’t I what was I thinking of when I agreed to do it stark staring bonkers. | |
![]() | Teachers (1962) 188: She’s the one that went stark raving bonkers. | |
![]() | Affairs of Gidget 70: Such a scream of joy that you’d have thought someone had gone stark in a loony bin. | |
![]() | Big Easy 184: Starkers. Madness arrives on ferocious wings: starkers and ravers. | |
![]() | A Little of What You Fancy (1985) 483: It was the only thing to save her from going completely stark, staring crackers. | |
![]() | Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 119: The bruvvers’ll go stark ravin’ bonkers over this. | |
![]() | Foetal Attraction (1994) 105: What a stark-raving bonkers, totally moronic numbskull. | |
![]() | News-Jrnl (Mansfield, OH) 6 Sept. 1/4: Parents not driven stark staring bonkers by the phenomenon will spend more than $20 million [...] on related merchandise. | |
![]() | Breakfast on Pluto 87: Had gone stark, raving bonkers over me. | |
![]() | Guardian Weekend 8 Apr. 77: She’s not stark staring bonkers in a homicidal way. | |
![]() | Green Bay Press-Gaz. (WI) 10 Nov. 31/2: A person adjuged ‘raving bonkers’ or ‘stark staring bonkers’ is not someone you want to sit next to on the subway. |