shack-wacky
adj.— «People became “shack-wacky.”…They went insane with a frequency which would be significant if one knew what was meant by it.» —“Wisconsin Death Trip” by William H. Gass New York Times June 24, 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Among biologists, a frog’s croak is known as an advertisement call. It’s a male frog’s way of making himself known. A Wisconsin listener says children in her area learn that this sound is jugarum, jugarum. Poet and editor Willard Espy...
Nancy Gabriel from Ithaca, New York, recalls her father’s no-nonsense responses to minor injuries when she was a child: After making sure she was really all right, he’d say, It’s far enough from your heart; it won’t kill you. Other times he...