'Crazy quilt' definitions:
Definition of 'crazy quilt'
From: WordNet
noun
A patchwork quilt without a design
Definition of 'Crazy quilt'
From: GCIDE
- Crazy \Cra"zy\ (kr[=a]"z[y^]), a. [From Craze.]
- 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. [1913 Webster]
- Piles of mean andcrazy houses. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. [1913 Webster]
- Over moist and crazy brains. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. --R. B. Kimball. [1913 Webster]
- Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone.
- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement. [1913 Webster]