shack-wacky
adj.— «I’m going shack-wacky and must get away from here, even if it’s only for a day or so.» —by LaVonne Telshaw Camp Lingering Fever: A World War II Nurse’s Memoir , 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Louisiana listener shares a favorite passage from Laurie Lee’s memoir Cider with Rosie (Bookshop|Amazon), about his boyhood in post-World-War II England. An extract is here and contains the passage:“For the first time in my life I was out of the...
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