loon

crazy as a betsy bug

Insane. Don't leave me alone with Uncle Stu, he's crazy as a betsy bug!
See also: betsy, bug, crazy

crazy as a loon

Insane. Often used jocularly. Don't leave me alone with Uncle Stu, he's crazy as a loon!
See also: crazy, loon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*crazy as a betsy bug

 and *crazy as a peach-orchard boar; *crazy as a loon
Rur. acting as if insane. (*Also: as ~.) Tom: Susan says she's really the Queen of England. Bill: She's crazy as a betsy bug. Jill: David's a little eccentric, isn't he? Jane: Crazy as a loon, I'd say. What's wrong with Jim? He's acting as crazy as a peach-orchard boar.
See also: betsy, bug, crazy
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

crazy as a loon

AMERICAN, INFORMAL
If you describe someone as crazy as a loon, you mean that their behaviour is very strange or silly. She was obviously crazy as a loon.
See also: crazy, loon
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

crazy as a coot/loon

Lunatic behavior. The simile to the water bird dates from the sixteenth century, when John Skelton (Phyllyp Sparowe, 1529) wrote, “the mad coote, with a balde face to toote.” It is not known whether the craziness refers to the bird’s strange behavior in winter, when flocks of coots on a frozen pond sometimes fly wildly at one another, or to the senile behavior of the very old. (See also bald as a coot.) A related ornithological simile is crazy as a loon, probably derived from the weird loud cry of this bird. However, loony for “crazy” comes not from the bird but from lunatic, in turn related to the ancient belief that the phases of the moon (Latin luna) influence human behavior.
See also: coot, crazy, loon
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • crazy as a betsy bug
  • Betsy
  • (as) crazy as a bedbug
  • crazy as a bedbug
  • crazy as a loon
  • bedbug
  • (as) crazy as a peach-orchard boar
  • boar
  • crazy in the head
  • bug off
References in periodicals archive
It has touted a few small subsidiaries, including Loon, as being crucial to its next act: diversifying beyond ad sales.
Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings
"Of course the promise of Loon is to provide service to the billions of people who need it every day, not just when a disaster hits," Westgarth added.
How Peru used balloons to restore internet after massive earthquake
A common gateway or ground station that could be deployed globally and utilized by both Loon and HAPSMobile to provide connectivity over their respective platforms.
HAPSMobile to invest USD 125m in Loon
Telkom Kenya CEO Aldo Mareuse said the operator will work with Loon to "deliver the first commercial mobile service" using the balloons.
Up and away: Loon's Internet-providing balloons to take to Kenya's skies
Project loon has been used to provide emergency mobile network coverage to Puerto Rico following the hurricane Maria disaster.It was first launched in 2012 with the aim of providing internet in remote areas of the world.
Google high altitude balloon crashes in Meru miraa farm
Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commision granted an (https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-347125A1.pdf) experimental license for Project Loon to operate on the island that is home to more than three million Americans.
T-Mobile Joins AT&T For Project Loon Connection In Puerto Rico
The Loon copter is designed to be a rapidly deployable, low-cost vehicle that could replace both drones and underwater vehicles."
OU Team's Loon Copter Competing for $1M Prize in International Drones for Good Competition
to connect people in hard- to- reach regions that are scarcely populated and we are working to hopefully bring Project Loon to India in rural communities, which have very few people connected to the Internet."
Balloons to go up soon for affordable Internet
Alphabet frames Project Loon as a noble endeavour striving to get about 100 million currently unconnected people tapped into the vast reservoir of knowledge, entertainment and conveniences available online.
Google 'beaming' balloons set for take-off
Alphabet frames Project's Loon as a noble endeavor striving to get about 100 million currently unconnected people tapped into the vast reservoir of knowledge, entertainment and conveniences available online.
Google's Internet-beaming balloons to take off in Indonesia
The project is called Project Loon.' The solar-powered balloon will float 12 miles above the earth and will provide immediate internet connectivity to the entire island.
Balloon Internet
My husband had it much harder: he was holding a powerful adult loon that would alternate between being calm and frantically trying to get away.
Cries in the night--banding loons in the Adirondacks
Four decades ago the common loon was not at all common on Massachusetts reservoirs and lakes.
Back from the brink; Loon revival at Quabbin, Wachusett reservoirs
Whether or not help from the nearby Loon Lake non-First Nation community's fire department would have saved the children's lives is unknown.
Letter: administration put dollars ahead of Aboriginal people
It's known as Project Loon, a name chosen for its association with both flight and insanity.
Project Loon: billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don't reach