wacky
[wak-ee]
- odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
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Origin of wacky
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Contemporary Examples
Washington, a truly masterful storyteller, grew up in what he calls “a wacky cult”—the Worldwide Church of God.
The actor showed tremendous range in the role, bouncing between his wacky stand-up persona and gentler dramatic work.
The onus is on one man to hold this wacky goulash of punditry together: Mike Tirico.
World Cup Anchor Mike Tirico’s Bizarre History: Reports of Stalking and Sexual HarassmentMarlow Stern
July 1, 2014
The man who holds ABC/ESPN's wacky goulash of World Cup punditry together strikes viewers as a paragon of congeniality.
World Cup Anchor Mike Tirico’s Bizarre History: Reports of Stalking and Sexual HarassmentMarlow Stern
July 1, 2014
The two wacky candidates combined for just over 5% of the vote with Brown pulling 3.3% and Bayes at 1.8%.
Historical Examples
If Jerry started for the swamp at this time of night he must be wacky!
Swamp IslandMildred A. Wirt
The two biggest one give the old man two wacky, one each, an' the little one wouldn' give any.
Jamaican Song and StoryWalter Jekyll
wacky
- slang eccentric, erratic, or unpredictable
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Word Origin
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
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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