Reverse Dictionary: LUNACY

(for lunatic asylum, see INSANE ASYLUM)

ADJECTIVES
1599 — LUNATICAL lunatic
1627 — LUNARY lunatic
1815 — BEDLAMITE lunatic, mad
1836 — MAZED crazed, mad, lunatic, distraught, insane → Eng. dial.
1842 — MAZE mad, crazy, lunatic; uneasy, over-anxious → Eng. dial.
1970 — BARSY — BARZY mad, lunatic → UK sl.

NOUNS
1598 — BEDLAM madness, lunacy
1616 — LUNES fits of frenzy or lunacy; mad freaks or tantrums → arch.
1662 — LUNATICNESS the condition of being lunatic → obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
1522 — BEDLAM a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1596 — GELT a lunatic
1605 — BEDLAM-BEGGAR a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1611 — MADPASH a foolish or insane person; a lunatic, a mad fellow; a crackbrained person; a scatterbrain; a hot-headed person; a rash or turbulent person; a wild, giddy person → obs.
1631 — MOONLING a simpleton, a silly fellow, a fool, an idiot, a lunatic → obs.
1658 — BEDLAM-MAN a madman; a lunatic
1675 — BEDLAMER a lunatic; a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1691 — BEDLAMITE a madman or lunatic; a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1876 — SAMMY — ZAMMY a simpleton, a fool; an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic → Eng. dial.
1895 — BARMY BLOKE a lunatic → Aust. criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1895 — LEERY-LOONIE a lunatic; a mentally-deranged person → Sc.
1897 — MAZE-MAN a madman, a lunatic → Eng. dial.
1903 — MADDIE — MADDY a mad person, a lunatic → Sc. obs.
1903 — MOONMAN a lunatic → obs. (Bk.)
1905 — MADLOCK a lunatic; a mad fellow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ​— MADSTART a lunatic; a mad fellow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — MADDO a lunatic → Aust. sl.
1918 — DIZZY a lunatic → US sl.
1949 — CRACK-UP a lunatic; one who has had an emotional breakdown, nervous collapse, etc. → US sl.
1953 — NUTCAKE a fool, a lunatic, an eccentric person → US sl.
1958 — NUTCASE an eccentric person, an odd person, a lunatic → sl.
1958 — NUTTER a lunatic, an eccentric person → sl.
1971 — NUTBURGER a lunatic, an eccentric, odd, or crazy person → US sl.
1977 — NUT-JOB a lunatic, a very eccentric person → US sl.
1978 — NUTBAR a lunatic; an eccentric, odd, or crazy person → US sl.
1985 — HALF-DECK a lunatic → euphemism 
1992 — KEITH MOON a crazy or eccentric person; a lunatic → UK rhyming sl. for ‘loon’ 
1993 — NUTBUCKET a lunatic → US sl.
1995 — NUT ROLL a lunatic → Amer. sl.
1999 — FRUIT AND NUT CASE an eccentric person, an odd person, a lunatic → sl.