schizy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schizy
1925–30; schiz(ophrenia) + -y 1; schiz, schizo
Example Sentences
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It was his own line and I thought it was twice gold: once because it nailed that schizy quality of fame, and also because it so nicely captured the difference between the way it was back then, in 1974, when a big star and a journalist on assignment might roam around town together unencumbered by publicists, and now.
From The New Yorker
It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part hypercharged pop.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other woman is Helena Kallianiotes, who played a schizy hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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