Where does “素っ頓狂” come from?

素っ頓狂 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 素っ — prefixes nouns, adjectives for intensification.

素っ頓狂 (Japanese): wild, crazy, hysteric

Definitions

  1. wild, crazy, hysteric

Ancestry of “素っ頓狂”, step by step

素っ頓狂 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 素っ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese素っprefixes nouns, adjectives for intensification

via Japanese 頓狂

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頓狂wild, crazy
Every word from Japanese 素っ