Home UK English yarra

Meaning of yarra in English:

yarra

adjective

informal Australian

  • Mad; crazy.

    ‘their racket nearly drove me yarra’
    • ‘The man's completely yarra.’
    • ‘Sydney had gone yarra over Americans and all things American.’
    insane, mentally ill, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, sick in the head, not together, crazy, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, psychotic, psychopathic, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, away with the fairies, foaming at the mouth

Origin

1940s from the name of a psychiatric hospital at Yarra Bend, Victoria.

Pronunciation

yarra

/ˈjarə/