Crossword Dictionary
doolally
doolally - (slang) out of one's mind, In full: doolally tap
in a sentence
He is respectfully urged not to make it into another doolally one.
The US-dominated crowd is going doolally.
Even the staid British go merrily doolally when the sun shines.
I wonder if the silence is sending everyone doolally.
They have great content, but the style, editing and scripts drive me doolally.
It contains words like palaver, doolally, poppycock and telegram.
etymology
"insane, eccentric," British slang, by 1917 in the armed services and in full doolally tap (with the Urdu word for "fever"), from Deolali, near Bombay, India, which was a military camp (established 1861) with a large barracks and a chief staging point for British troops on their way to or from India; the reference is to men whose enlistments had expired who waited there impatiently for transport home.