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kooky¹

  • /ˈkuːki/ UK
  • /ˈkʊki/ UK
  • /ˈkuki/ US
  • /ˈkʉːki/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈkʉke/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /-kɪ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /-ki/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like cookie (/ˈkʊki/ British pronunciation or with the foot–goose merger) · Rhymes with -uːki, -ʊki

adjective kookier · kookiest · kookie

  1. slang Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish. His kooky behavior seemed charming at first, but soon got on our nerves.
  2. Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like. 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.

Similar: bonkers, kookish, nuts, outlandish, wacky · Opposite: conventional, mainstream, normal, ordinary, straight, uneccentric

kooky²

  • /ˈkuːki/ UK
  • /ˈkʊki/ UK
  • /ˈkuki/ US
  • /ˈkʉːki/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈkʉke/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /-kɪ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /-ki/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like cookie (/ˈkʊki/ British pronunciation or with the foot–goose merger) · Rhymes with -uːki, -ʊki

Where it comes from

Clipping of kookaburra + -y.

noun kookies

  1. alternative, childish Alternative form of kookie (“kookaburra”).

Thesaurus

adjective

Similar: bonkers, kookish, nuts, outlandish, wacky · Opposite: conventional, mainstream, normal, ordinary, straight, uneccentric

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adj crazy

Españolchiflado, majareta, deschavetado, chiflis, achusemado, chalado
Françaisdingue
Deutschschräg, irre, spinnert, verrückt

adj surfing: behaving like a kook

中文古怪的

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"kooky." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/kooky. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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kooky. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/kooky

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"kooky." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/kooky.

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@misc{kooky_2026,
  title = {kooky},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kooky},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}