kooky
Americanadjective
adjective
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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
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
The Kroffts would go on to produce live-action prime-time variety shows, as kooky as any of their puppet-based shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Some people think that’s a pretty kooky ambition for a girl—but I like it.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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
Then there were the kookier neon illustrations, like a ruffled tuxedo shirt of glowing white on a dry-cleaner window, or a girl jumping for joy at the prospect of going bowling.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011
Go out and have fun in the kookiest, most "woke" way possible.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025
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
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
Perhaps the kookiest — and most wondrous — aspect of the 36,000-square-foot museum is that each of the additional 11 rooms besides the three-room Hobbit hole represents a different location in Tolkien’s fantasy world.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
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