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Definition of Crazy quilt
1. Noun. A patchwork quilt without a design.
Definition of Crazy quilt
1. Noun. A quilt made from random patches, without any unifying design. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively by extension) An uncoordinated jumble of things, ideas, practices, policies, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crazy Quilt
Literary usage of Crazy quilt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"If you have ever seen an old-fashioned "crazy quilt," you have a good object in
... The facts are arranged as the pieces of a [crazy quilt], as if every one ..."
2. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... short coat patched variously as a crazy- quilt—and nothing else. And one older
fellow, otherwise naked, was decked in a battered derby hat, ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Crazy-quilt. A quilt of patchwork. 1886 What is generally called " crazy guilt "
in the States, and patchwork in England. ..."
4. Blood and Iron: Origin of German Empire as Revealed by Character of Its by John Hubert Greusel (1915)
"<6r?at 14 The German crazy-quilt, of many hues and colors, and how this blanket
was patched and mended through the years. U From the 18th Century, ..."
5. The Bookman (1906)
"So there was nothing left to bother about much in the matter of impedimenta except
the crazy quilt. Years ago, when I was a tiny girl, an old nurse started ..."
6. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"If you have ever seen an old-fashioned "crazy quilt," you have a good object in
... The facts are arranged as the pieces of a [crazy quilt], as if every one ..."
7. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... short coat patched variously as a crazy- quilt—and nothing else. And one older
fellow, otherwise naked, was decked in a battered derby hat, ..."
8. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Crazy-quilt. A quilt of patchwork. 1886 What is generally called " crazy guilt "
in the States, and patchwork in England. ..."
9. Blood and Iron: Origin of German Empire as Revealed by Character of Its by John Hubert Greusel (1915)
"<6r?at 14 The German crazy-quilt, of many hues and colors, and how this blanket
was patched and mended through the years. U From the 18th Century, ..."
10. The Bookman (1906)
"So there was nothing left to bother about much in the matter of impedimenta except
the crazy quilt. Years ago, when I was a tiny girl, an old nurse started ..."
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