kooky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kook
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English kooky
From kook + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: kookier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kookiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: kookie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: His kooky behavior seemed charming at first, but soon got on our nerves.
In a move to make his exam more interesting, sociology instructor Abraham Kovler borrowed the Atco disk from deejay "Big Jim Pappas," WALL, Middletown, N.Y., and based eight questions on the record's lyrics. […] Pappas played up the project big on his show and nominated it for a "Kooky Exam of the Year" award.
Juke box playin' in the jungle / No charge, absolutely free / Soft drinks bubbling down a mountain / To the Carabean^([sic – meaning Caribbean]) sea: / What A Kookie Little Paradise / What A Kookie Little Paradise / Never was an island half as nice / As my Kookie Little Paradise.
If you are an Audrey Hepburn fan – who isn't? – you may have some difficulty in picturing her as a New York playgirl. Miss Hepburn, an elegant thoroughbred, just doesn't look like the type of girl who would live strictly for kicks. Yet here she is, turning out the performance of her life, in a new picture, Breakfast at Tiffany's, as – what the Americans call – 'a real kookie dame!'
MOON PILOT. (Disney—Buena Vista) Charlie, a chimpanzee, has just circled the moon three times successfully; it is now time for a man to go. When the chimp sticks Astronaut Rick Talbot, in the seat of the pants, Rick stands up at the wrong time and is accepted as a volunteer. The chimp meantime is getting kookier and kookier—crazy, man.
Your child will use your crazy answers as a model for inventing his or her own. That's why the more imaginative and far-out your answers are, the kookier your child's answers will be. And the kookier the better—because in this game, kookiness stretches the imagination.
While the animation is often pretty awful, the "Aesop and Son" cartoons are a delight to the ear. […] [W]ithin the cartoons, he [Daws Butler] did some of the kookiest character voices he ever played, matched beautifully by Bill Scott, who costarred in all the fables. Most of them, in fact, are really dialogues between Butler and Scott, who together played what amounted to an entomologist's and zoologist's life study—an incredible range of animals.
There's a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline. / Isn't that a KOOKY thing, / To see a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline?
[A]s a moose-hunting former beauty queen, [Sarah] Palin is a kooky character – precisely the sort of person a producer would home in on at the auditions like a dog sniffing meat.
"I want you to eat more balanced meals and exercise more often. I don't think you need to lose weight, at least not by going on some kooky crash diet." / She brushed off his reply and started walking. "It's not kooky. […] I'm not going on a kooky diet. I plan to eat sensibly, just smaller portions, and cut out comfort food entirely."
[…]I would really prefer not to use the term “illiberal” for a very simple reason, which is that “illiberal” takes conservatives like me and puts us in the same bucket with the kooky Nazi right, and there’s no need for that.
gloss: Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.
pos: adj
examples: From Kook to Classic A new appreciation for the grace (and glory) of longboardsmanship changed the image of longboarding from kooky to classic. Longboarding became a class-act and the classic essence of the surfing lifestyle.
I realized that the strain of the aloha spirit that surfing was bringing out in me was extremely aggressive. […] In my third week I had a revelation. I returned to Seal Beach, where Kim was still in school with the Michaels, and paddled straight out to the pier. I looked around and realized that the lineup was all kooks. In fact, I was the least kooky. I couldn't believe it. Where was the gang?
Synonyms: bonkers
kookish
nuts
outlandish
wacky
Antonyms: conventional
mainstream
normal
ordinary
straight
uneccentric
Related words: kook
kookily
kookish
kookishness
kookology
Derived words: kookiness
unkooky
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