crazy mixed-up kid
crazy mixed-up kid
A psychologically troubled youth. This term was born about 1940 and soon was extended to describe a merely eccentric person, and not necessarily young. It also is used jestingly, but may be dying out.
See also: crazy, kid
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- kook
- odd bird
- queer duck
- oddball
- bats in one's belfry, to have
- bee in one's bonnet, to have a
- odd-bod
- odd bod
- geke
- nerd