craze
English
/kɹeɪz/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) craziness; insanity.
- A strong habitual desire or fancy.
- A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
- (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crasen (break, shatter, break to pieces, crush, craze) derived from Old Norse krasa (shatter).
Origin
Old Norse
krasa
Gloss
shatter
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- becraze English
- crash English
- crazen English
- crazily English
- craziness English
- crazy English
- crazy-ass English
- crazyhouse English
- crazymaker English
- crazymaking English
- crazyquilted English
- crazysauce English
- crazyweed English
- ecocrazy English
- noncrazy English
- outcrazy English
- uncrazy English
- kreisi Finnish
- crasen Middle English
- *krasa Old Norse
- krasa Old Norse
- ecraser Middle French