kooky
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of kooky
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It’s also the latest echo of the kooky craze of adding “.com” to company names back then, which has been repeating with companies racing to add “AI” to their names or tickers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
And Sam's kooky persona is either going to win people's hearts or crash out spectacularly.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
At the time it was just another one of his kooky ideas that went nowhere, largely because the people around him were able to give him another shiny object to chase.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
“The Ballad of Wallis Island” A kooky millionaire strong-arms his favorite mid-aughts folk duo into playing a reunion show on his Welsh island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Maybe it was kismet, but they spotted an elderly Iranian man dining with his son and decided to rope them into their kooky divorce plan.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Fittingly, the majority of my favorites came from Cannes’ kookier programming sections, Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard — and I suspect many of yours did, too, oui?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Second, Ms. Behn’s affordability message seems to be trumping the effect of her kookier statements because she is filling a vacuum left by the White House, which remains quiet on an agenda to lower costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
There was nothing wrong with her voice; they just wanted to make the character a little kookier without re-shooting the whole thing.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2024
Once she retired—she died in 2017—the troupe couldn’t perform pieces on that scale, but it could always come up with a few people to do the kookier early work.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
Spin through the first New York City Neiman Marcus or its kookier neighbor, Forty Five Ten, a fellow Dallas retailer with outposts in Miami; Aspen, Colo.; and the Napa Valley of California.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2019
“You had Captain Dynamite who would blow himself up between games of a doubleheader, that’s probably the kookiest one,” Kayser said of the unconventional promotions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
But the kookiest details are connected to true stories.
From Salon ● May 28, 2020
Esquivel Jingle Bells The kookiest, weirdest version I’ve ever heard, for a space-age bachelor pad, as they say in the lyrics.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018
His character’s self-sacrificial willingness to grit his teeth through the kookiest high jinks that suburbia has to offer makes his stodgy values at least those of a consistently decent guy.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
One of the quirkiest, kookiest clans in popular culture is headed to Broadway for the holiday season: not the Addams family, which is already firmly entrenched in the theater district, but the Osmond family.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2010
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