单词 | kinky |
释义 | kinkyadj.n. A. adj. 1. Having, or full of, kinks; closely curled or twisted: said esp. of the hair of some races. Also in combinations, as kinky-bearded, kinky-haired, kinky-headed, kinky-tailed adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > curly crispc900 crullc1300 curledc1380 crispy1398 crispedc1400 encrispedc1420 lockeredc1440 locker?a1500 curly1774 tendrilled1806 kinky1844 ruffly1859 buckling1861 peppercorn1868 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > odd quaintc1325 awkc1440 queer?a1513 odd1578 quaintish1594 odd-conceiteda1616 odd-ceited1652 whimsical1675 singulara1684 eccentric1685 oddish1705 rummish1709 comical1713 odd-like1718 rum1750 queerish1775 funny1793 quare1805 rummy1828 kinky1844 quirkish1848 quirky1873 odd-gates1906 funny-peculiar1916 antrin1925 off-brand1929 fanciful- 1844 Congress. Globe 6 Jan. App. 42/3 [The Negro's] skull is as thick, his hair is as kinkey, his nose as flat..as they were the day he was first introduced. 1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches of Travel 146 I happened to call one of the nigger waiters ‘boy’. The kinky-headed cuss looked at me sideways, and rolled the whites of his eyes at me. 1861 ‘L. M.’ in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. I. iii. 137/1 A marked distinction is laid Between the rights of the mistress, And those of the kinky-haired maid. 1865 Publ. Opin. 31 Dec. 726 Sambo the blubber-lipped..the kinky-haired. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad viii. 78 With heads clean-shaven, except a kinky scalp-lock back of the ear. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 644 The hair more kinky, yet altogether unlike the woolly headed negro of the Guinea coast. 1923 H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient x. 229 Some tied their black hair in a knot at the back of the head, others let it fall in kinky disarray about the shoulders. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxix. 290 The hard-bitten, kinky-haired casualty-sister assisting him with critical and voiceless composure. 1937 Time 16 Aug. 58/2 Ill lay kinky-bearded, 64-year-old Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. 1956 C. Auerbach Genetics in Atomic Age 93 When a female mouse is irradiated during the second week of pregnancy, some of her young may be born with kinky tails. Unlike true mutations to kinky tail, these deformities are not inherited. If, later on, visible mutants should turn up in the progeny of such a kinky-tailed mouse, they are not more likely to affect the tail than the eyes or the ears or the coat. 2. a. figurative (colloquial) ‘Queer, eccentric, crotchety’ (Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 1860): cf. kink n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky fantastical1531 odd1577 eccentric1685 fanaticized1827 cranky1850 bee-bonneted1856 cornery1887 screwy1887 kinky1889 crankish1892 ratty1895 batchy1898 batsc1901 batty1903 potty1920 offbeat1922 off-centre1930 wacky1935 screwball1936 up the creek1941 oddball1945 wackadoo1958 kooky1959 wiggy1963 flaky1964 nutball1968 woo-woo1971 wacko1977 off-kilter1985 wackadoodle1993 fantastic- 1889 Sportsman 2 Jan. (Farmer) The kinky ones and the worthy ones who play hole-and-corner with society. 1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey viii. 100 This jaundiced young philosopher, with his kinky view of life, was too much for him. 1929 W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico xix. 263 A fellow ought to know something about the funny kinky ways of ordinary men and women. 1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party ii. 120 But when everything's bad form, or mental kinks, You either become bad form, and cease to care, Or else, if you care, you must be kinky. b. Lively, spry, energetic. U.S. local. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] sprindeOE livelyOE kaskc1300 wightc1300 courageousc1386 wighty14.. wieldya1413 ablec1440 tall of hand1530 sappy1558 energical1565 energetical1585 greenya1586 stout1600 strenuous1602 forceful?1624 actuous1626 vigorous1638 vivid1638 high-spirited1653 hearty1665 actuose1677 living1699 full-blooded1707 executive1708 rugged1731 sousing1735 energic1740 bouncing1743 two-fisted1774 energetic1782 zestful1797 rollicking1801 through-ganging1814 throughgoing1814 slashing1828 high-powered1829 high pressure1834 rip-roaring1834 red-blooded1836 ripsnorting1846 zesty1853 dynamic1856 throbbing1864 goey1875 torpedoic1893 kinky1903 zippy1903 go-at-it1904 punchy1907 up-and-at-'em1909 driving1916 vibranta1929 kinetic1931 zinging1931 high-octane1936 zingy1938 slam-bang1939 balls-to-the-wall1967 balls-out1968 ass-kicking1977 hi-octane1977 1903 G. S. Wasson Cap'n Simeon's Store vi. 107 ‘He ain't over and above kinky, though, I s'pose likely?’ ‘No,..nothin' very antic about him…there must be some buckram left into him, too, the way he keeps a-going.’ 1914 Dial. Notes 4 4 Kinky, in high spirits. ‘You seem to be feeling pretty kinky to-day.’ c. Criminals' slang. Of things: dishonestly come by (see also quot. 1954). Cf. crooked adj. 3b, bent adj. 5a, 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by irregular means crooked1864 cross1892 kinky1927 hot-stuffed1929 scrounged1941 organized1957 1927 Collier's 23 July 15/1 ‘Why, you can't tell me that you didn't know those five big cars were kinky.’ ‘Kinky?’..‘Those cars were bent.’ 1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 117 Kinky, criminal; crooked; unlawful. Said of stolen goods, or of an individual known to be without the law. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §470/1 Booty,..killing, kinky goods, lift. 1954 W. R. Simpson & F. K. Simpson Hockshop 275 Canfield..was never accused..of having ‘kinky’ gambling paraphernalia. By that I mean dice and cards and roulette wheels that gave the house an unfair advantage. d. In senses corresponding to kink n.1 3c. Of a person: given to sexual behaviour regarded as strange or unconventional. Of a thing (esp. clothing): sexually provocative in an unconventional way (e.g. kinky boots). In weakened sense: bizarre, eccentric. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [adjective] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable unmanlike1636 spintrian1656 paraphiliac1935 paraphilic1952 kinky1959 pervo1970 pervy1970 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 16 Suze..meets lots of kinky characters..and acts as agent for me getting orders from them for my pornographic photos. 1960 ‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick xviii. 145 ‘If you think I'm perverted you're completely mistaken. I'm quite normal.’ ‘Normal? You? That's a laugh. You're kinky, the same as what I am.’ 1963 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 19/2 The phrase ‘kinky advert’..meant that she acted as an advertisement for irregular sexual practices. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 1 It [sc. 1963] was the year..that women adopted the fashionable long ‘kinky’ boot. 1964 J. Burke Hard Day's Night i. 11 She was dead kinky for sweetbreads. 1964 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 925/1 Zoo men receive a constant stream of kinky letters. 1966 Listener 6 Jan. 23/1 One of the girls—a buxom specimen in kinky patent leathers. 1966 J. Porter Sour Cream ix. 117 I knew she was perfectly capable of fabricating the whole scheme just to get rid of Katia whom she loathed. It was like something out of Greek tragedy, only kinkier. 1967 A. Diment Dolly Dolly Spy ii. 19 He produced a pack of Black Russian cigarettes, dead kinky, and tossed me one. 1968 B. Turner Sex Trap xv. 149 I believe the psychiatrists have other ideas about what makes a kink kinky. 1971 Daily Tel. 16 July 11/4 In a moment of excessively kinky passion a husband strangles his mistress. 1972 F. Warner Lying Figures iii. 36 Kinky sex makes them feel inadequate. B. n. a. A person with ‘kinky’ hair. ΚΠ 1926 J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning 4 One considers the negro as a shining apostle of sweetness and light, another as a gentle old darkey, and still another as a ‘phallic kinky’. 1926 G. Thomas in Rainbow in Morning 154 The Fayette County and other South Texas ‘kinkies’ whose songs I have been noting. b. An object dishonestly obtained. ΚΠ 1927 Collier's 23 July 14/1 A kinky, any stolen car. 1941 Amer. Mercury Mar. 349/2 The titles of every car Joe sold could be searched clear back to the factory... Yet the cars were strictly kinkies. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §430/2 Curly-headed person, curly, curly-locks, curly-pate, kinks, kinky. c. A person who is unconventional in sexual behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable > person pervert1856 freak1923 perv1948 secko1949 kinky1950 paraphiliac1958 paraphilic1962 prevert1962 kink1965 nonce1971 sickie1973 sicko1977 pervo1978 1950 ‘N. Bell’ I am Legion vii. 216 O Good Lord... Quite half of them are kinkies. 1959 Encounter July 83/1 No prostitutes, no queers, no kinkies. 1967 A. Diment Dolly Dolly Spy vi. 82 Porny photos, various drugs and birds for kinkies at Oxford. d. In plural. Kinky boots. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > other > boots the shoemaker's stocks1666 kinkies1965 1965 Punch 19 May 755/1 Palm memory of the agreeable feel of the two-in-hand will come back, and if snakeboots replace kinkies, the thrill of the double slalom round the sprigs above the eyeletholes. Draft additions 1997 ˈkinkily adv. in a kinky manner; unconventionally, eccentrically, bizarrely. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adverb] > not according to standard behaviour irregularly1591 exorbitantlya1635 featly1674 unorthodoxically1733 eccentrically1737 unorthodoxly1798 nonconformably1860 kinkily1934 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adverb] > bizarrely outlandishly1808 uncannily1822 weirdly1859 freakishly1873 bizarrely1884 kinkily1934 freakily1946 1934 in N. Webster Dict. 1964 in Hamblett & Deverson Generation X 146 [The Tonups] have always been an untouchable group on their own, kinkily keen on their bikes. 1979 Washington Post 1 May b12 A spaced-out, self-centered imbecile, she finds this strange new suitor kinkily irresistible. 1987 Guardian Weekly 4 Jan. 21/5 Some of the stage pictures..were kinkily strange (such as a topless lady in a black-swan tutu trapped in a plastic tunnel). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1844 |
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