shack-wacky

shack-wacky adj. restless or irritable from staying indoors or in one location for a long period; stir crazy; afflicted with cabin fever. Editorial Note: The Dictionary of American Regional English has a single 1991 citation of this term from a informant in Wisconsin who described it as a logger’s and trapper’s term. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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