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SlangGuy’s Online-Slang-Wör­ter­buch: Englisch-Deutsch
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im Sin­ne von “etw komisch wer­den”, eine “Mei­se ent­wi­ckeln”; auch im Sin­ne von “exzen­trisch”
den Ver­stand ver­lie­ren; ver­rückt / spin­nig / spin­nert wer­den; sich plötz­lich auf­fäl­lig merk­wür­dig verhalten
über­schnap­pen; irre wer­den; einen Hau krie­gen; mackig wer­den; zu spin­nen anfan­gen; [irgend­wie] komisch wer­den; abdre­hen; hohl dre­hen; schrul­lig wer­den; wun­der­lich werden;

 

Ver­glei­che:
squir­rel­ly; nuts: go nuts; dri­ve sb nuts; go cra­zy; blow one’s cork, blow one’s stack, blow one’s top, crack up, flip, flip one’s lid, flip out, flip one’s wig, freak out, go ape, go apes­hit, go around the bend [Brit], go bal­my, go bana­nas, go bar­my, go bats, go bat­ty, go bent, go bon­kers [Brit], go bon­zo, go bug­gy, go bug­house, go bugs, go bug­sy, go cock­ama­mie, go cockey­ed, go crack-brai­ned, go cra­cked, go cra­ckers [Brit], go crack­pot, go crack­pot­ty, go cra­zy as a bedbug, go cra­zy as a coot, go cra­zy as a loon, go cra­zy as cats­hit, go cuckoo, go daffy, go ding­dong, go dippy, go dop­ey, go dot­ty, go dumd­um, go fruit­ca­key, go frui­ty, go fun­ny, go ga-ga, go gon­zo, go Gon­zo City, go goofy, go half-baked, go half the­re, go hay­wire, go kooky, go loco, go loo­ny, go loo­ny-tune, go loo­py, go lun­chy, go men­tal, go mes­hu­gah, go nerts, go nert­sy, go nuts, go nut­so, go nut­sy, go nut­ty, go nut­ty as a fruit­ca­ke, go off, go off one’s chump, go off one’s nut, go off one’s rocker, go off the wall, go off one’s trol­ley, go out of one’s gourd, go out of one’s skull, go out of one’s tree, go pot­ty, go psycho, go que­er, go que­er in the head, go round the bend [Brit], go rumd­um, go scat­ty, go schi­zo, go schi­zy, go screw­ball, go screwy, go squir­rely, go tet­ched, go tet­ched in the head, go up the wall, go wacko, go wacky, go weird, go wild-ass, lose one’s gourd, nut up, schiz out, slip one’s trol­ley, snap, wig out.

 

Quo­tes:

“I hit him twice befo­re he got over the shock and came back at me. I went a bit pot­ty, and in spi­te of his cracks (he was strong as well) I split his eyes and lips, and …”
Alan Sil­li­toe, A Start in Life

“… my head and then she went a bit pot­ty and wan­ted to know why I thought the­re was someone out the­re who wan­ted to kill her father. ‘In a fun­ny sort of way I …”
Won­ny Lea, Never Dead

“They were ter­ri­bly stu­pid, you know, even befo­re they went com­ple­te­ly pot­ty.’ ‘Not their fault.’ I defen­ded the Miss Boyds. ‘Once again, I repeat that they were the …”
Jane Dun­can, My Fri­ends Geor­ge and Tom

” … pot­ty (Bri­tish, infor­mal) • “I had an old aunt once who went com­ple­te­ly pot­ty.” ber­serk • He tos­sed back his head in a howl …”
Coll­ins Eng­lish Thesaurus

” … infor­mal) • “I had an old aunt once who went com­ple­te­ly pot­ty.” oddball (infor­mal) loo­py (informal)crackpot (infor­mal) • She was no more a crack­pot than the rest …”
Coll­ins Eng­lish The­sau­rus — Coll­ins Dictionary

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