buggy adj.2
(US) lit. or fig., unstable, insane.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Nov. 12/4: ‘Permit me to add that if I am again stopped in the public street when on duty by such a mob I shall not be responsible for the consequences.’ Meek old buggy Christian! | |
| On the Wallaby 248: The most wretched old scarecrow of a buggy mortal man ever saw. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Autobiog. of a Thief 168: These latter would tell the keepers that he was buggy. | |
| ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in DN IV:iii 213: buggy, confused and simple. ‘He’s buggy, sure as you live.’. | |
 | ‘Bogy Man Blues’ 🎵 If your man get buggish and he wanna go / [...] let the fool man go. | |
| Hungry Men 176: I’m not half as buggy as some people think. | |
| Seeds of Man (1995) 380: That there damn-derned Charlie has gone jest as buggy as a damn peach-orcherd boare hog. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side 39: Crazy Old Hasteth! Little-Time-To-Repent! [...] Buggy old Just-As-I-Am. | |
| Mad mag. Dec. 48: The best way to drive a baby buggy is to tickle his feet! | |
| Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 484: Take your buggy boyfriend and clear out of here before I forget I’m a lady. | |
| Going After Cacciato (1980) 141: My old man, he went buggy when he saw the mess. | |
| Sick Puppy 322: It might also have lowered Robert Clapley’s buggy anxiety to a saner level. |
In compounds
(US) a psychiatric institution.
| Man with the Golden Arm 216: Prove I’m nuts I go to the buggy bin. |