zoo-crazy, adj.

zoo-crazy
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Revised 2017

# zoo-crazyadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zoo-crazy mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zoo-crazy. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the adjective zoo-crazy come from?

Earliest known use

1930s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoo-crazy is in the 1930s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoo-crazy is from 1938, in the writing of Louis MacNeice, writer.

### Nearby entries

1. zoobenthos, n. 1923–
2. zoocarp, n. 1824–88
3. zoocaulon, n. 1881–
4. zoocentric, adj. 1882–
5. zoochemical, adj. & n. 1844–
6. zoochemistry, n. 1835–
7. zoochlorella, n. 1882–
8. zoochore, n. 1904–
9. zoochorous, adj. 1904–
10. zoochory, n. 1921–
11. zoo-crazy, adj.1938–
12. zoocultural, adj. 1899–
13. zooculture, n. 1873–
14. zoocytium, n. 1880–
15. zoodendrium, n. 1880–
16. Zoodikers, int. 1749–98
17. zoodynamic, adj.?1819–
18. zoodynamics, n. 1888–
19. zooecial, adj. 1873–
20. zooecium, n. 1871–
21. zooerythrin, n. 1871–

## Meaning & use

1. 1938–
   Having a passionate enthusiasm for zoos.
   1. 1938

      > A curate who was Anglo-Catholic..and..zoo-crazy.

      L. MacNeice, Zoo iv. 71
   2. 2014

      > She landed on a blog run by a zoo-crazy high school student.

      Moment March 55/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo, n.

zoo, n. was revised in June 2017.