- crazy quilt
- noun
Date: 1886
1. a patchwork quilt without a design
2. jumble, hodgepodge <a crazy quilt of regulations>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
crazy quilt
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crazy quilt — crazy quilt, adj. 1. a patchwork quilt made of irregular patches combined with little or no regard to pattern. 2. something that is irregular in pattern or shape, and suggestive of a crazy quilt; patchwork. [1885 90, Amer.] * * * ▪ soft… … Universalium
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Crazy quilt — 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
crazy quilt — ☆ crazy quilt n. 1. a quilt made of pieces of cloth of various colors, patterns, shapes, and sizes 2. anything formed of incongruous or miscellaneous parts; patchwork; hodgepodge … English World dictionary
crazy quilt — n a cover for a bed, made from small pieces of cloth of different shapes and colours that have been sewn together … Dictionary of contemporary English
Crazy Quilt — This article is about the DC Comics villain; for the textile art, see Crazy quilting; for the card game, see Crazy Quilt (solitaire); for the unrelated TV show, see Crazy Quilt (TV Series). Crazy Quilt is the name of two DC Comics supervillains.… … Wikipedia
crazy quilt — noun a patchwork quilt without a design • Hypernyms: ↑patchwork, ↑patchwork quilt * * * noun, pl ⋯ quilts [count] US 1 : a covering for a bed that is made of many pieces of cloth in different sizes without a regular design 2 : a confused mix of… … Useful english dictionary
crazy quilt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms crazy quilt : singular crazy quilt plural crazy quilts American a patchwork quilt … English dictionary
crazy-quilt — adjective Date: 1888 resembling a crazy quilt ; haphazard < a crazy quilt system > … New Collegiate Dictionary
