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wacky

[ wak-ee ]
/ ˈwæk i /
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adjective, wack·i·er, wack·i·est. Slang.

odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.

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RELATED WORDS

crazy, unpredictable, eccentric, loony, nutty, silly, absurd, zany, foolish, odd, balmy, crazed, daft, demented, deranged, erratic, insane, irrational, lunatic, mad

Nearby words

  1. wace,
  2. wack,
  3. wacke,
  4. wacked-out,
  5. wacko,
  6. wacky tobacky,
  7. waco,
  8. wad,
  9. wad medani,
  10. wada
Also whacky.

Origin of wacky

1935–40; apparently whack (noun, as in out of whack) + -y1
Related formswack·i·ly, adverbwack·i·ness, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for wacky

wacky

/ (ˈwækɪ) /

adjective wackier or wackiest

slang eccentric, erratic, or unpredictable
Derived Formswackily, adverbwackiness, noun

Word Origin for wacky

C19 (in dialect sense: a fool, an eccentric): from whack (hence, a whacky, a person who behaves as if he had been whacked on the head)
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Word Origin and History for wacky

wacky

adj.

"crazy, eccentric," 1935, variant of whacky (n.) "fool," late 1800s British slang, probably ultimately from whack "a blow, stroke," from the notion of being whacked on the head one too many times.

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