kooky
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ki adjective, kook·i·er, kook·i·est. Slang.
of, like, or pertaining to a kook; eccentric, strange, or foolish.
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| —adj , kookier, kookiest | |
| informal crazy, eccentric, or foolish | |
| kookie or kookie | |
| —adj | |
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Kooky
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Word Origin & History
kooky
1959, Amer.Eng., originally teenager or beatnik slang, possibly a shortening of cuckoo. Noun form kook is attested from 1960.
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Example sentences
Right now it's fun and kooky but it's only going to get darker.
Sometimes the results seemed inspired, in a kooky, look-what-software-can-do kinda way.
There are too many kooky theories around for serious scholars to attend to them all.
And then they went away and made all our kooky ideas make sense, from a menu perspective.
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