barking
Meanings
Plural: barkings
Verb
- speak in an unfriendly tone
- cover with bark
- remove the bark of a tree
- make barking sounds
- tan (a skin) with bark tannins
- present participle and gerund of bark
Adj
- Clipping of barking mad.
Noun
- The action of the verb to bark.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English berkyng, berkande, equivalent to bark + -ing.
Synonyms
5150, apeshit, bananas, bark, barking, barking mad, barmy, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, bats, batshit, batty, bonkers, bread baskets, buggish, buggy, bughouse, cra-cra, cracked, crackers, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, disturbed, doolally, dotty, eccentric, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, gaga, harebrained, hatstand, insane, kooky, latrant, latration, loco, loon, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nuts, nutso, nutter, nutty, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, ripshit, screwy, sicko, skin, squirrelly, starkers, three stops short of Dagenham, tonto, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, whacky, wode, yampy, zany
Scrabble Score: 14
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