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off-minded en · ADJ

Etymology

From off- + minded.

Meanings

1. Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
   • So, on a certain occasion, old Doacon Jones "drapped" in his "quarter" without uttering the conventional pleading grunt, which remiss was noted by the preacher — the Deacon being a little off-minded, as his wife, had recently died, [...] 1892, Southern practitioner:
2. Mentally unstable or insane; crazy.
   • Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is. 2011, Michael A. Heck, Angel Above Water:

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