Meaning

(slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
2. (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.
3. (childish) Alternative form of kookie (“kookaburra”).

Example Sentences

His kooky behavior seemed charming at first, but soon got on our nerves.

In a move to make his exam more interesting, sociology instructor Abraham Kovler borrowed the Atco disk from deejay "Big Jim Pappas," WALL, Middletown, N.Y., and based eight questions on the record's lyrics. […] Pappas played up the project big on his show and nominated it for a "Kooky Exam of the Year" award.

Juke box playin' in the jungle / No charge, absolutely free / Soft drinks bubbling down a mountain / To the Carabean^([sic – meaning Caribbean]) sea: / What A Kookie Little Paradise / What A Kookie Little Paradise / Never was an island half as nice / As my Kookie Little Paradise.

If you are an Audrey Hepburn fan – who isn't? – you may have some difficulty in picturing her as a New York playgirl. Miss Hepburn, an elegant thoroughbred, just doesn't look like the type of girl who would live strictly for kicks. Yet here she is, turning out the performance of her life, in a new picture, Breakfast at Tiffany's, as – what the Americans call – 'a real kookie dame!'

MOON PILOT. (Disney—Buena Vista) Charlie, a chimpanzee, has just circled the moon three times successfully; it is now time for a man to go. When the chimp sticks Astronaut Rick Talbot, in the seat of the pants, Rick stands up at the wrong time and is accepted as a volunteer. The chimp meantime is getting kookier and kookier—crazy, man.

Your child will use your crazy answers as a model for inventing his or her own. That's why the more imaginative and far-out your answers are, the kookier your child's answers will be. And the kookier the better—because in this game, kookiness stretches the imagination.

While the animation is often pretty awful, the "Aesop and Son" cartoons are a delight to the ear. […] [W]ithin the cartoons, he [Daws Butler] did some of the kookiest character voices he ever played, matched beautifully by Bill Scott, who costarred in all the fables. Most of them, in fact, are really dialogues between Butler and Scott, who together played what amounted to an entomologist's and zoologist's life study—an incredible range of animals.

There's a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline. / Isn't that a KOOKY thing, / To see a KANGAROO jumping on a trampoline?

Word Forms

• kookier
• kookiest
• kookie
• kookies

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Use kooky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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