DELIRIOUS, DELIRIUM
ADJECTIVES
► BOGGY semi-delirious, as under the influence of drugs → 1927 Amer. dial.
► BRAINISH hot-headed; high-spirited; delirious → 1530 obs. or Sc.
► CARRIED delirious, light-headed, wandering in mind → 1876 Sc.
► IDLE of persons: light-headed, out of one’s mind, delirious → 1548 obs.
► IDLE-HEADED off one’s head; out of one’s wits; distracted, delirious → 1599 obs.
► IN A REE in a state of temporary delirium → 1825 Sc.
► LOCO delirious → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LURGY-LURGY suffering from temporary delirium → 1943 Brit. military sl.
► MOITHERDY dazed, bewildered; wandering in one’s mind, silly; delirious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOITHERED dazed, bewildered; wandering in one’s mind, silly; delirious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAVELLED confused in mind, muddled; rambling, incoherent, delirious → 1866 Sc.
► REE crazy, delirious; rude, wild; unmanageable → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SICK TO THE HEAD delirious → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UPON THE MOON light-headed, delirious → 1890 Eng. dial.
► WIGGY crazed or delirious → 1810 sl.
NOUNS
► FANCY a legend, a fanciful tale; a whim, an idea; delirious talk; general in plural → 1836 Eng. dial.
► IDLENESS light-headedness, imbecility; delirium; also, folly, foolishness, silliness → a1536 obs.
► RAVERY delirium, raving; a violent fit of passion attended with loud vociferation → 1721 Sc. obs.
VERBS
► BE WRONG IN ONE’S GARRET to be foolish or wanting in intellect, or suffering from temporary delirium → 1869 sl.
► CALL to be delirious → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DELIRIATE 1. to act, speak, or reason in a manner considered insane, deluded, or absurd; to be affected by delirium; to rave → 1659
2. to make a person delirious; to confound → 1711 obs.
► MADDLE to rave, to be delirious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOITHER to talk incoherently or foolishly; to be delirious, to wander or ramble in one’s mind → 1874 Eng. dial.
► RAVEL to speak in a wandering, incoherent manner; to ramble, to maunder, to be delirious → 1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RAVELLIN raving, delirium → 1895 Sc.
► VAIRIE ► VARY to show the first symptoms of delirium, to begin to ‘wander’ → 1825 Sc.