kooky
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of kooky
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Many came to Interested in Olive Oil’s defense, calling the reference refreshingly kooky; others wondered why they hadn’t included a touch more detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
I’m a little more grounded, a little less kooky, maybe a lot less kooky, but I’m into astrology, I’m into crystals, I’m into energy work, pretty much all the same things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
You might say, Okay, but when has a working-class Indian-American girl with a kooky dadi and ripped jeans ever become a famous filmmaker?
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
The kookiest characters onscreen this season may be the ones played by Dan Stevens.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
But her delusions of grandeur, as she shoplifts or fends off imaginary enemies, could earn her a place among the kookiest of women in Pedro Almodóvar’s oeuvre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
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