Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Eccentric or irrational.
- adjective Crazy; silly.
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- noun Alternative form of
wacke . - adjective Of a person or their behaviour,
zany .
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- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- adjective ludicrous, foolish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dressed in wacky clothes, says funny stuff like, “I like pizza.” and “I got a wallet.”
Top 10 Unintentional Comedies of the 90s » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Kim Possible, Pinkie and the Brain, Invader Zim and many other comedies threw in wacky, wacky plots from time to time.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009
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Wild incomptence can also work ... or just plain wacky/random things (see: nobody expects the spanish inquisition!) # Wingson 16 Apr 2009 at 7: 57 pm
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Some Suggestions for Humor-Writers 2009
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Q: Your characters are basically nice people caught in wacky scenarios that are mostly due to their own frailties and quirks.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Katie Fforde 2008
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It's a fish out of water story, with would-be heroes coming to terms with new abilities in wacky ways!
Movies that Suck: Crap-tastick Four wendigomountain 2008
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Mentioning a Velez-type or a player like Johnson around the same time as Albert Pujols or Jake Peavy can sometimes result in wacky numbers.
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It would be very, very bad advice - sometimes crazy, misguided bad, resulting in wacky, embarrassing Three's Company-like scenarios - sometimes viciously, heinously bad resulting in devastating, life-crushing misery.
Dear Slimbolala Slimbolala 2006
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These newsroom characters are regarded less as role models than as holy fools whose wisdom, no matter how wacky, is still magical and oracular.
My Times 2004
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These newsroom characters are regarded less as role models than as holy fools whose wisdom, no matter how wacky, is still magical and oracular.
My Times 2004
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China uses the war on terror to justify its persecution of people in wacky cults like Falun Gong and the cultural genocide of the peace-loving Tibetans.
10/15/2004 2004
yarb commented on the word wacky
This word has come to connote self-conscious, court-jester-style buffoonery, embarrassing to all concerned.
A good example of the older, more straightforward sense of 'weird', 'absurd' or 'unusual' is the 1974 Dr Seuss book "Wacky Wednesday".
November 17, 2007