Talk:bonkers

Could this term be labelled "dated" or "obsolescent"? Steinbach (talk) 22:04, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

It’s not remotely dated or obsolescent. It’s just one of a number of words relating to madness beginning with ‘b’ that we have in the U.K. that aren’t used in the U.S, such as ‘barmy’, ‘bananas’ and ‘barking’, it just needs a U.K tag if anything Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:00, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

From bonk? (sound of a hitting on the head)--Manfariel (talk) 16:39, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

I’ve always interpreted it as ‘the action(rather than sound) of hitting on the head’, from the notion that someone who receives a bonk to the head often acts or thinks crazily due to confusion, memory loss or personality changes a severe blow can induce. The word could be tagged ‘originally and mainly U.K’ but it looks like I was wrong to suggest it’s only used here, considering that we have a Washington Times quote for this entry Overlordnat1 (talk) 11:02, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

The president of Belize just called John McAfee bonkers in the NetFlix documentary about him called ‘Running with the Devil’ (around 15 mins in). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)