Loonie or loony

A loon is either a certain species of bird or a person who is crazy, illogical, mentally ill, or just foolish. The second definition came as a shortened abbreviation for the word lunatic. A loonie is a Canadian coin worth one Canadian dollar. It has an image of a loon on it. When the currency was introduced in the 1980s, […]
from Grammarist
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