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wacky, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈwækɪ|
Also whacky.
[f. whack n. + -y1: cf. out of whack s.v. whack n. 4. For earlier uses (‘a fool; left-handed’) see Eng. Dial. Dict.]
Crazy, mad; odd, peculiar. a. Of persons.
1935J. Hargan in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XXX. 365 Wacky, insane. 1938J. Digges Bowleg Bill 28 They all want to know why he done it, and is he gone clean whacky. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 8/1 Her grandmother, wackier than she is, haunts the place. 1950‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley xv. 172 She might..leave..her kids to that wacky aunt of theirs. 1964Economist 13 June 1242/2 Departed, prostrate or, in former President Eisenhower's recent phrase, ‘a little bit whacky’. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 420 It did much to drive the Ellen Jamesians even wackier or simply away. 1984Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 Mar. 7/2 She plays the wacky mother of Debra Winger.
b. Of things or abstract concepts.
1937Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 8/1 This picture is described as ‘the wackiest’. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 14 The whole office was afraid of him. I know that sounds wacky. Hardened newspapermen being afraid of a..little office-boy? 1959S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time x. 141 Your cousin's death was wacky—why go to the trouble of staging an accident? 1969L. Hellman Unfinished Woman iv. 37 The office was a wacky joint in a brownstone house on 48th Street. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places v. 191 A characteristically whacky, yet somehow endearing tenderness for individual liberty. 1984Listener 24 May 39/3 In his fear of death Betjeman's hand shook, and lines were created more from wacky fright than profound or energising contemplation.
Hence ˈwackiness, the state or quality of being ‘wacky’; craziness, oddness.
1941Sun (Baltimore) 1 Oct. 10/2 Maybe the majority won't think that ‘the wonderful bums’ [sc. the Brooklyn Dodgers] can win, but they will be out by the thousands..hoping that wackiness will be more than its own reward. 1980R. L. Duncan Brimstone iv. 80 For all her wackiness, Annie knew how to live.
Add: ˈwackily adv., in a ‘wacky’ or crazy manner.
1961in Webster, Wackily. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) xxxvii. 358 Setting the sparrows to flying wackily about in the rafters, beaning themselves on the walls. 1988Arena Autumn/Winter 33/2 No cuts, no rewrites—just a squib of disinformation in Pravda wackily indicting Orwell for stealing his book from an essay by an obscure 19th century Russian literary critic.
▸ wacky baccy n. slang marijuana.
1983CoEvolution Q. Spring 92, I think that new guy's been smokin' some of that *wacky backy. 1993I. Banks Crow Road 206 ‘You don't mind me having a little smoke?’.. ‘Oh,’ Fergus said, suddenly realising, ‘You mean the old wacky baccy.’ 1998Truth (Auckland) (Nexis) 8 May 1 The controversial halfback..admits at one stage in his career he trained in the morning and hit the wacky baccy after lunch—as team mates reached for fruit juice or vitamin pills.
▸ wacky tobaccy n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions.
1982E. L. Abel Marihuana Dict. 108 *Wacky tobaccy, marihuana. 1986Time 28 Apr. 70 The two Brads share an idyllic toke of ‘wacky tobaccy’. 2000Esquire May 114/2, I start to calculate normal wear and tear. My brain on Budweiser. The drumfuls of fluorocarbons I have sucked out of the New York air, the odd ounce of wacky tabacky in high school, cooking with aluminum.
▸ wacky weed n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.) = wacky baccy n. at Additions.
1974J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger i. 16 Jeff has some good smoke tonight—he calls it *wacky weed—and..he and Jones get down with a little wine and some weed, and they rap. 1992E. A. Proulx Postcards xl. 242 He winked at Loyal who guessed there were plots of wacky weed up there somewhere. |