Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Borrowed from Italian.
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
Holla in New York, fo'sho they'll tell you I'm loco2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:
You know, I’m a little loco. Kinda crazy, zany guy.2003 December 15, The New Yorker, page 56:
Who you trying to get crazy with ése? Don't you know I'm loco?1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:
Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong1988, Phil Collins, “Loco in Acapulco”, in Indestructible, performed by Four Tops:
It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco!1943 April 3, Super-Rabbit, spoken by an unnamed rabbit:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| most loco | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more loco | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
fi hullu (crazy) · bg въртоглав (crazy) · bg луд (crazy) · bg куку (crazy) · cmn 瘋 /疯 (crazy) · ru чо́кнутый (crazy)
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| locos | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| locoes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”).
They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner:
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| locoed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| locoed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| locoing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| locos | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
From clipping of locomotive and locofoco, both from Latin locus (“place, cause”).
Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94:
A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him.1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243:
Like his fellow Young American locos, Thomas Dorr was an early and vigorous advocate of global republicanism and William Leggett’s locofocoism, though this point is little-known and less emphasized in histories of the Dorr Rebellion.2016 November 29, Anthony Comegna, The Loco-Foco Movement...:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| locos | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
locospotter · locoshed · steam loco · diesel loco · locoman
in loco · in loco parentum · in loco parentis
ru лок (short form of locomotive) · nb lok (short form of locomotive) · de Lok (short form of locomotive) · nn lok (short form of locomotive) · sv lok (short form of locomotive)