kooky

Or kook·ie

[koo-kee]

adjective

Slang.

kookier, kookiest 

1. of, like, or pertaining to a kook; eccentric, strange, or foolish.

kooky

/ ˈkuːkɪ /

adjective

1. informal,  crazy, eccentric, or foolish

Word History and Origins

Origin of kooky¹

First recorded in 1955–60; kook + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Less than a year after their viral NPR Tiny Desk, the notoriously kooky duo flexed their ability to slip between genres.

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That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.

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She’s another character with a slippery identity and Swinton, always entertaining, has some fun with her, embracing the movie’s over-the-top aesthetic by donning kooky pink eyeglasses and sporting an electroshock hairstyle.

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“Her habit is to clutch privacy about her like a shawl,” Time Magazine wrote in 1977, the year that “Annie Hall” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” established Keaton as a kooky sweetheart with serious range.

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At least I liked her kooky sincerity, as well as a supporting performance by 12-year-old Jacobi Jupe as Shakespeare’s fictional son.

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• flaky 
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• offbeat 
• outlandish 
• peculiar 
• quaint 
• quirky 
• unconventional 
• weird