chicken oriental en · ADJ
Meanings
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(Cockney, slang) Mental, crazy, insane.
Gave up and moved back home. Since then house prices have gone chicken oriental so the likelihood of me moving into my own place is very small.
2003 November 24, Beer Monster, “Re: just curious.........”, in alt.culture.ukc.misc (Usenet):Tom shivered. This sounded like a comment of the sort that might first alert a husband to his wife’s rankling insanity. ‘Our new family?’ he echoed. ¶ ‘Yes. Don’t look worried – I haven’t gone chicken oriental. I made a simple, practical decision.[…]’
2008, Sophie Hannah, The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets: Short Stories, London: Sort of Books, →ISBN, page 59:
Synonyms
nucking futs · nerts · lunatic · psychotic · potty · nutso · mental · batcrap · batchy · nutter · gaga · bat-shit · nut job · batpoop · screwy · nonsane · cra-cra · loopy · whacko · sicko · wode · cracked · cray-cray · buggy · weird · unsane · meshugge · fruit loops · kooky · zany · 5150 · over the edge · deranged · buggish · bughouse · crazed · bonkers · meshigener · squirrelly · off the chain · crackers · demented · psychoceramic · loony · yampy · loon · nutty · crazy as a cootie bug · daffy · moonsick · wackadoodle · cuckoo · eccentric · insane · barmy · off the beam · dotty · bread baskets · loony tunes · crazy · psycho · loco · distraught · unbalanced · starkers · bananas · nut · nutballs · barking mad · batshit · mad · daft · barking · non compos mentis · harebrained · tonto · apeshit · crazy as a cootie · cray · hatstand · mentally ill · whackjob · fucked up · ripshit · batty · crazy as a bedbug · crazy as a pet coon · bats · doolally · whacky · nuts · disturbed · fucked in the head