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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-773/
- Published: 2022-03-12T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-15T19:13:35.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…  
  
stir-crazy (adjective): *slang*  
: distraught because of prolonged confinement

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stir-crazy?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Stir-crazy originated as a word to describe a prisoner who became distraught after prolonged confinement. Stir is a 19th-century slang word for “prison” that some word historians have suspected to be from Romani stariben, of the same meaning. But a convincing argument of that origin has yet been made. Today, stir-crazy describes any person who has become restless, agitated, or anxious from being or feeling entrapped in some place.

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