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Definition of Crazy house
1. Noun. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
Generic synonyms: Asylum, Insane Asylum, Institution, Mental Home, Mental Hospital, Mental Institution, Psychiatric Hospital
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crazy House
Literary usage of Crazy house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl by Dorothy Richardson (1905)
"They took her away to the lock-up in the hurry-up wagon, and the next day they
said she was crazy,—clean crazy,—and she 's in the crazy-house over on the ..."
2. Textbook of insanity: Based on Clinical Observations for Practitioners and by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1905)
"... was the state of things during the time of the crazy-house, of which Kaulbach
has given such a striking picture.1 But the time for a change had come. ..."
3. The Public-school Journal: Devoted to the Theory and Art of School Teaching by George Pliny Brown (1893)
"I am challenged to state " 100%=cost of the horse," and, from that as a basis,
correctly solve the problem, and a picture of the "crazy- house" is held up ..."
4. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1886)
"Some of the latter were formerly immured in the cells of a wretched " crazy-
house," for long used in connection with the almshouse. Maize, potatoes, barley ..."
5. The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl by Dorothy Richardson (1905)
"They took her away to the lock-up in the hurry-up wagon, and the next day they
said she was crazy,—clean crazy,—and she 's in the crazy-house over on the ..."
6. Textbook of insanity: Based on Clinical Observations for Practitioners and by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1905)
"... was the state of things during the time of the crazy-house, of which Kaulbach
has given such a striking picture.1 But the time for a change had come. ..."
7. The Public-school Journal: Devoted to the Theory and Art of School Teaching by George Pliny Brown (1893)
"I am challenged to state " 100%=cost of the horse," and, from that as a basis,
correctly solve the problem, and a picture of the "crazy- house" is held up ..."
8. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1886)
"Some of the latter were formerly immured in the cells of a wretched " crazy-
house," for long used in connection with the almshouse. Maize, potatoes, barley ..."
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