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What is another word for cuckoo?

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Adjective

Not having a sound state of mind

Displaying a lack of sensibleness or judgment

Strangely unconventional or eccentric

Someone who lacks general intelligence or common sense

A person, typically male, who is insane or mentally disturbed

A scatterbrained person

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Adjective

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Not having a sound state of mind

away with the fairies

dippy

nutso

mad as a March hare

not the full shilling

not right in the head

eccentric

up the pole

not quite right in the head

have kangaroos in the top paddock

have bats in the belfry

flaky^UK

flakey^US

not in your right mind

erratic

schizo

flipped

one card shy of a full deck

a few cards shy of a full deck

a few sandwiches short of a picnic

severely mentally ill

deprived of one's wits

having kangaroos in the top paddock

severely mentally disordered

incoherent

nobody home

out of your mind

two sandwiches short of a picnic

maladjusted

one sandwich short of a picnic

as mad as a March hare

traumatized^US

traumatised^UK

not knowing what to do with oneself

woolly^UK

bedeviled^US

bedevilled^UK

wooly^US

at the end of your tether

with Alzheimer's disease

glassy-eyed

shot to pieces

spaced out

not knowing if one is coming or going

addle-brained

muddle-headed

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“Giorgio keeps harping on about ancient aliens building the great pyramids. I'm beginning to think he's a little cuckoo.”

Adjective

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Displaying a lack of sensibleness or judgment

not the full shilling

dead from the neck up

flakey^US

flaky^UK

as thick as two short planks

extremely foolish

stupidly irresponsible

thick as two short planks

away with the fairies

not right in the head

not quite right in the head

not right upstairs

as daft as a brush

have a screw loose

have bats in the belfry

have kangaroos in the top paddock

mentally unbalanced

out of one's head

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“Frankly, I think she has a cuckoo idea that if I get a lot of stuff from him, I'll love him more than I do her, which is crazy.”

Adjective

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Strangely unconventional or eccentric

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“We have to prove that literature students are not woolly-headed creatures living in a cuckoo land of dreams.”

Noun

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Someone who lacks general intelligence or common sense

unsophisticated person

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“He started babbling incoherently about being the Tiger King, and I suspected that I might be dealing with a cuckoo.”

Noun

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A person, typically male, who is insane or mentally disturbed

antisocial personality

one who has a screw loose

one who has bats in the belfry

square peg in a round hole

round peg in a square hole

odd person

rum customer

queer duck

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Noun

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A scatterbrained person

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