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kooky, a. slang.|ˈkuːkɪ|
Also kookie.
[f. kook + -y1.]
Cranky, crazy, eccentric.
1959Motion Pictures Aug. 32/1 Get set for some far-out talk on teen-age romance by the kookiest cat in town—Edd Byrnes. 1961Spectator 15 Sept. 360 I've got this kooky Aunt who reads novels. 1961John o' London's 30 Nov. 615/4 The dialogue is conscientiously kookie. 1962Sunday Express 21 Jan. 17/1 A Hollywood comedienne noted for her ‘kookie’ performances. 1963E. L. Wallant Tenants of Moonbloom (1964) iv. 48, I feel like dropping the Muse and this kooky life and marrying a nice tired businessman. 1965[see kook 1]. 1971Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 16/1 A ‘kooky’ young American woman: enthusiastic, energetic, enterprising and ‘a bit nuts’. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1452/3 (Advt.), ‘No Sex Please, We're British!’ The funniest, kookiest night of your life.
So ˈkookily adv., in a kooky manner; ˈkookiness, the state of being kooky.
1962Sunday Express 21 Jan. 17/3 Kookiness doesn't go with a kimono. 1968Punch 19 June 899/1 This study of a kooky girl is also..kookily narrated. 1970Sudbury (Ontario) Daily Star 26 Feb. 18/4 There's nothing you can do, so accept your mother's kookiness gracefully. Her antics in no way diminish you in the eyes of your friends. 1974Observer 21 Apr. 37/1 ‘Isadora’ kookily takes off on a Freudian odyssey round Europe. |