Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Eccentric or irrational: a wacky person.
- adj. Slang Crazy; silly: a wacky outfit.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a person or their behaviour, zany.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- adj. ludicrous, foolish
Etymologies
- Variant of whacky, probably from the phrase out of whack; see whack.
Examples
“Wild incomptence can also work ... or just plain wacky/random things (see: nobody expects the spanish inquisition!) # Wingson 16 Apr 2009 at 7: 57 pm”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Some Suggestions for Humor-Writers
“Dressed in wacky clothes, says funny stuff like, “I like pizza.” and “I got a wallet.””
“Kim Possible, Pinkie and the Brain, Invader Zim and many other comedies threw in wacky, wacky plots from time to time.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum
“Q: Your characters are basically nice people caught in wacky scenarios that are mostly due to their own frailties and quirks.”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Katie Fforde
“It's a fish out of water story, with would-be heroes coming to terms with new abilities in wacky ways!”
“Mentioning a Velez-type or a player like Johnson around the same time as Albert Pujols or Jake Peavy can sometimes result in wacky numbers.”
“It would be very, very bad advice - sometimes crazy, misguided bad, resulting in wacky, embarrassing Three's Company-like scenarios - sometimes viciously, heinously bad resulting in devastating, life-crushing misery.”
“These newsroom characters are regarded less as role models than as holy fools whose wisdom, no matter how wacky, is still magical and oracular.”
“China uses the war on terror to justify its persecution of people in wacky cults like Falun Gong and the cultural genocide of the peace-loving Tibetans.”
“HAMMER: And this is why I used the word wacky earlier.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wacky’.
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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...
yarb This word has come to connote self-conscious, court-jester-style buffoonery, embarrassing to all concerned.
A good example of the older, more straightforward sense of 'weird', 'absurd' or 'unusual' is the 1974 Dr Seuss book "Wacky Wednesday". Nov 16, 2007