ĭistinguishing sarcasm from banter, and referring to the use of irony in sarcasm, Derek Bousfield writes that sarcasm is: Well then thanks for all the first aid over the years!" or it may be used in the form of a direct statement, "You couldn't play one piece correctly if you had two assistants." The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection. It may be used in an indirect manner, and have the form of irony, as in "What a fine musician you turned out to be!," "It's like you're a whole different person now.," and "Oh.
In sarcasm, ridicule or mockery is used harshly, often crudely and contemptuously, for destructive purposes. In its entry on irony, describes sarcasm thus: However, the word sarcastic, meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm given to the use of sarcasm bitterly cutting or caustic", doesn't appear until 1695. Tom piper, an ironicall Sarcasmus, spoken in derision of these rude wits, whych. It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser:
Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format.The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός ( sarkasmós) which is taken from σαρκάζειν ( sarkázein) meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer". (Today we thank that wild and crazy guy Perry Dror for discovering the insanity of today's Good Word.) The verb itself was probably borrowed from the same Old Norse word that ended up in Swedish as krasa "to crackle". Crazy, derived from the verb craze, took on the same meaning sometime in the 17th century.
#X WORD THAT MEANS CRAZY CRACKED#
It began with cracked brain and ending up simply as cracked in modern English. The metaphor of a cracked pot (or simply crackpot) referring to someone who is out of their mind started sometime later. Word History: English speakers were using pot in reference to the skull at least by the 15th century. But the adjective today is used far more often to refer to the behavior of someone out of their mind: "Swallowing live goldfish was called a craze back in the 20s because it was a crazy thing to do." In Play: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has not declared the original meaning of today's Good Word obsolete, so we must deal with it: "I don't understand how grandma's crazy pitcher holds any water." My wife once made pottery with crazy raku glazes (like the one above) in the original sense of this Good Word. A craziologist is a psychiatrist or psychologist whom you don't like. We have also back derived a new noun, a craze, which means craziness over something very popular, such as the current iPad craze. A person who is crazy is a crazy who belongs to the class of all crazies. The adverb is crazily and the noun, craziness (don't forget to replace Y with I before suffixes). This word compares with suffixes: crazier and craziest. Notes: After the crazy primaries we are experiencing in the US in 2012, I thought that today we should investigate the word crazy itself. Wild but fun (crazy party), unpredictable, out of the ordinary, unorthodox (crazy idea), out of line or alignment (crazy brick pattern).
#X WORD THAT MEANS CRAZY FULL#
Full of cracks, frail, about to fall to pieces.
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