schizo, screwy, squirrely, wacko, wacky, nuts, loony, loco, nutty, ape, bananas, bats, batty, bonkers, bughouse, bugs, cuckoo, dippy, mental, off one's rocker, off the wall, out in left field, Brit, off one's chump.
6. Derogatory, homosexual, Inf. gay, Inf. bent. See homosexual (def. 1).
7. Slang, a. bad, poor, worthless, useless, defective, faulty; deficient, inferior, second-rate, below par or standard, b. counterfeit, spurious, fraudulent, forged, bogus, ungenuine, unauthentic, supposititious, apocryphal, colorable, sham, mock, dummy, bastard, quasi, pseudo, so-called, Inf. fake, Sl. phony.
-v. 8. spoil, ruin, mar, Fig. butcher; impair, damage, hurt, harm; bungle, bosh, muff, blunder, foul up, make a mess or hash of, Inf. butch, Inf. flub, Inf. gum up the works, Inf. bolix, Sl. mess up, Sl. screw up, Sl. louse up, Sl. blow, Sl. bitch.
9. jeopardize, jeopard, imperil, peril, hazard, threaten, expose, endanger, put in or expose to danger; compromise; commit, venture, chance, stake, gamble, dare, take a chance, tempt fortune.
-n. 10. Derogatory, homosexual, Derog. homo, Derog. faggot. See homosexual (def. 2).
11. Slang, counterfeit money, false or bad money, base coin, Inf. phony or bogus money, Sl. green goods. quell, v. 1. suppress, subdue, abort, extinguish, stamp out; vanquish, conquer, subjugate; overpower, overcome, overwhelm; crush, defeat, worst, beat down, put down, squelch; rout, disperse, scatter.
2. quiet, silence, calm, Archaic, becalm, hush, lull, pacify, compose, tranquilize; allay, assuage, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, moderate; soothe, appease, mollify, soften; dull, deaden, blunt; abate, stem, stay. quench, v. 1. satisfy, satiate, sate, flake, surfeit, glut, saturate, allay; Sl. take care of it, Sl. hit the spot; have one's fill, have more than enough, have enough for now; gorge, cloy, pall.
2. extinguish, snuff out, put out, Inf. douse, Inf. dinch, blow out, (of a light) turn off, Sl. snub out; smother, suffocate, stifle, damp, choke.
3. quash, quell, suppress, squelch, crush, vanquish, overcome, subdue, put down, squelch; nip, nip in the bud, Inf. put the kibosh on; overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, subvert, topple, defeat, conquer. quenchless, adj. 1. insatiable, insatiate, unap-peaseable, unquenchable, unsatisfied, unslaked, unsated; hungry, craving, famished; dry, athirst, thirsty, Dial, droughty, parched, arid.
2. greedy, desirous, cupidinous, avaricious, avid, esurient; predacious, rapacious, voracious, ravening.
3. inextinguishable, unsmotherable, ever-burning. querulous, adj. 1. complaining, caviling, faultfinding, carping, censorious, hypercritical; whining, fretful, murmuring, grumbling, lamenting, plaintive; finical, finicky, overparticular, fastidious, fussy, Inf. pernickety, overnice, meticulous, squeamish; captious, disputatious, quarrelsome, contentious, fractious; contrary, perverse, Scot. thrawn; antagonistic, ill-willed, hostile; unaccommodating, unkindly, unamia-ble, unfriendly; difficult, exacting, demanding.
2. peevish, ill-humored, touchy, testy, thin-skinned, waspish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric, ill-tempered, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, crusty; irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy, huffish, huffy, curt, short, impatient; piqued, in a pique, Archaic, in a pucker.
3. moody, sulky, dour, gloomy, dyspeptic, sullen, morose; discontented, dissatisfied; injured, wounded, sore, offended, indignant.