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crazyquilted en · ADJ

Etymology

From crazy + quilted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Formed like a crazyquilt, by a seemingly random assortment of things.
    • I cleared my sight of browns, found gayer colors on our crazyquilted ground. 2011, Jay Albrecht, Angelic Asides, page 17:
    • That his crazyquilted literary career paralleled his frustrated life compounds the pathetic situation, yet many a reader of Irish literature must have breathed a sigh of relief when it became apparent that the intricacies and vagaries of At Swim were abandoned for the comic fantasies of the later novels. 1983, Dennis Jackson, Irish Renaissance Annual - Volume 3, page 15:
    • A few prisoners end up with bodies crazyquilted with motley scars and skin patches, but to these men, in the context of a prison economy, it seems well worth it. 1973, Samuel E Wallace, Total Institutions, page 34: