stir-crazy



*stir-crazy

crazy from being confined. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; go ~; get ~; make someone ~. stir is a slang word for prison.) I am going to go stir-crazy if I don't get out of this office.

stir-crazy

  (mainly American informal)
upset and nervous because you have been in one place for too long
Usage notes: Stir is a word used in American English for a prison.
It's no wonder she's going stir-crazy, shut in that tiny house all day with three young children.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Hovsep-Armenian
Gianmariajahn-mah-REE-ahItalian
'Iyyov-Biblical Hebrew
LinnieLIN-eeEnglish
Hirshel-Yiddish
Cenric-Anglo-Saxon