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单词 kooky
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Definition of kooky in English:

kooky

adjectivekookier, kookiest ˈkʊkiˈkuːkiˈkuki
informal
  • Strange or eccentric.

    I like kooky foreign films
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The kooky bird suits are heavily featured in the film's posters.
    • But I'm finally ready to deliver another once of those wonderfully kooky recaps you've all come to care so little about.
    • I knew they couldn't have been serious about that kooky plan.
    • It seems like only yesterday that you were a kooky bunch of English kids with a funny logo, a taste for Marx and a fetish for vintage synthesizers.
    • Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky.
    • She reckoned his kooky looks and responsive personality would make him the ideal house pet and, for four years, life was quiet.
    • Uderzo's kooky illustrations and funky fashion sense has contributed a lot to the Asterix charm.
    • The first message was from one of my roommate's kooky friends, so I turned up the volume.
    • And Ayesha, with her curious mix of rabid work ethic and kooky naivety, looks right at home here.
    • At best, O'Neill's kooky book is highly marginal; more reasonably judged, the book is a joke.
    • And a lot of what they say makes sense to me, but some of it winds up sounding a little kooky.
    • It's a kooky film that should've been just a bit longer.
    • Following an onstage nervous breakdown, Bamford moves back to her cold and kooky family in Minnesota to get her head together.
    • The younger generation look plain kooky in their big black overcoats emblazoned with East German military memorabilia.
    • He'll probably say something kooky in his wacky language and then run off!
    • Either by accident or by design, Hawks created a rather kooky film instead of the hard-boiled movie that it pretends to be.
    • It seems Bennett was led down this road by a remarkably kooky caller.
    • The kooky pair have been dating for less than a year, but Tom's recent health scare swiftly brought the two together.
    • Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
    • But, I figure those two wonderful, kooky kids could hook her up with the best places to go for music and fun.
    Synonyms
    unusual, irregular, unorthodox, unfamiliar, uncommon, uncustomary, unwonted, rare, out of the ordinary, atypical, singular, distinctive, individual, individualistic, free-spirited, alternative, different

Derivatives

  • kookily

  • adverb
    informal
    • I like this Ted Baker shirt in a nice aqua-green; the pattern is retro without being kookily so and it nicely combines flowers with geometry.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When the kookily dressed and wildly imaginative Leslie Burke comes to town, he's found his kindred spirit.
      • I'm not talking about the free, kookily fun software here.
      • But Cibelle, siren of the São Paulo scene combines the two in one kookily sexy persona.
      • It is kookily carnal, sweetly dreamy, truly over the top.
  • kookiness

  • noun
    informal
    • Kate Hudson is unexpectedly subdued as Caroline, demonstrating none of the slightly manic kookiness that she normally trades in.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sara's kookiness charms him, understandably, but what's she getting out of it?
      • Imbruglia's voice is still undeniably sweet on the ears, combining the assuredness of Madonna with the cute kookiness of Cyndi Lauper.
      • The kookiness comes over as detachment or other-worldliness.
      • A little kookiness is fine.

Rhymes

adzuki, bouzouki, fluky, kabuki, pukey, saluki, spooky, Sukie, Suzuki, verrucae
 
 

Definition of kooky in US English:

kooky

adjectiveˈkukiˈko͞okē
informal
  • Strange or eccentric.

    I like kooky foreign films
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He'll probably say something kooky in his wacky language and then run off!
    • The kooky pair have been dating for less than a year, but Tom's recent health scare swiftly brought the two together.
    • Following an onstage nervous breakdown, Bamford moves back to her cold and kooky family in Minnesota to get her head together.
    • And a lot of what they say makes sense to me, but some of it winds up sounding a little kooky.
    • But, I figure those two wonderful, kooky kids could hook her up with the best places to go for music and fun.
    • I knew they couldn't have been serious about that kooky plan.
    • Uderzo's kooky illustrations and funky fashion sense has contributed a lot to the Asterix charm.
    • It seems like only yesterday that you were a kooky bunch of English kids with a funny logo, a taste for Marx and a fetish for vintage synthesizers.
    • Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
    • And Ayesha, with her curious mix of rabid work ethic and kooky naivety, looks right at home here.
    • Either by accident or by design, Hawks created a rather kooky film instead of the hard-boiled movie that it pretends to be.
    • It's a kooky film that should've been just a bit longer.
    • It seems Bennett was led down this road by a remarkably kooky caller.
    • The first message was from one of my roommate's kooky friends, so I turned up the volume.
    • At best, O'Neill's kooky book is highly marginal; more reasonably judged, the book is a joke.
    • The younger generation look plain kooky in their big black overcoats emblazoned with East German military memorabilia.
    • The kooky bird suits are heavily featured in the film's posters.
    • She reckoned his kooky looks and responsive personality would make him the ideal house pet and, for four years, life was quiet.
    • Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky.
    • But I'm finally ready to deliver another once of those wonderfully kooky recaps you've all come to care so little about.
    Synonyms
    unusual, irregular, unorthodox, unfamiliar, uncommon, uncustomary, unwonted, rare, out of the ordinary, atypical, singular, distinctive, individual, individualistic, free-spirited, alternative, different
 
 
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