in combination occurs in two groups of compounds: 1. Combs. in which crack- is the vb. stem governing an object: CRACK-HALTER, -HEMP, -JAW, -NUT, -ROPE, -TRYST; so † crack-fart, deriv. -er (see quots.). 2. Combs. in which crack- app. stands for cracked- (which is occasionally found in early examples): as CRACK-BRAIN(ED, -GROAT, -HEADED, -SKULL, -WINDED.
1569. in Hickeringill, Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 212. Excommunications … are but what our Famous Queen Elizabeth, when Excommunicated by Pope Sergius, called them, the Popes Crackfarts.
1682. N. O., Boileau’s Lutrin, II. 15. Her Head-Quarters Where e’re she [Fame, Rumour] roam’d by day, was the Crack-farters!
