Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Characteristic of a kook; strange or crazy.
Wiktionary
- adj. irreverent; idiosyncratic or unexpected; not normal
- adj. describing a person crazy or insane
- adj. surfing Resembling a kook in behavior
WordNet 3.0
- adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Examples
“I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.”
“This obsessive fan Mel - played to breathtaking perfection by Kristen Schaal, a US comic it is currently illegal to describe without using the word "kooky" - is based on a variety of real-life groupies.”
“Look, I draw a very bright line between eccentric and kooky, which is completely fine, and child safety.”
“GOFF: The official terminology, I believe, for a political move like that is called a kooky (ph) one, a wacky one, a loopy one.”
“I was displeased that the Iran correspondent of Al-Akhbar newspaper--of all places--called the kooky Iran holocaust "conference" "courageous.”
“Audrey Tautou, known as the kooky Parisian girl in the movie "Amelie", made her live stage debut this week as a tragic heroine -- the latest screen actor to bring Paris theatres.”
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“Audrey Tautou (pictured in 2009), known as the kooky Parisian”
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“Audrey Tautou, known as the kooky Parisian girl in the movie Amelie, has made her live stage debut in Paris as a tragic heroine.”
“When we see "Cooky," we think "kooky" -- as in, not normal, not quite right, a little crazy.”
“Sasha expected to meet resistance to her self-described "kooky" idea, but found the concept quickly accepted, particularly in rural areas, where animal-manure based fertilizer has long been the norm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kooky’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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the indelible ink of personality
nefarious, mischievious, bawdy, intense, blunt, steadfast, succulent, edible, nature, creature, truth, touch and 28 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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Jilly's Words
luscious, horseshit, marlpit, teratoma, yonder, squish, frank, soft, spire, mentalist, ululation, youins and 42 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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wacas words
convalesce, despicable, venality, anodyne, gosling, whorl, meretricious, lithe, metonymy, cavern, thoroughbred, frivolous and 44 more...
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Fryin's Words of nonsensical Wisdom
...the imprint of cataclysmic events exist in the brain like a stain on an old dusty blanket in the closet...
irascible, kooky, boss, tits, and how, musty, sick-house, abort, bong, symbiosis, weapon, see and 23 more...
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zoe's Words
oink, piglet, puffball, sleepy, zeitgeist, lickety-split, noodle, caffeine, porridge, epitome, snowy, kooky and 30 more...
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