variants or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
: having the characteristics of a kook : offbeat, eccentric
kookiness noun

Examples of kooky in a Sentence

I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers. if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
Recent Examples on the Web Michael Cera, who played Allan – the kooky and lovable best friend of Ken – told CNN that the real win is how the film was received by audiences and brought people back into theaters. Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024 Why, argyle, of course — that preppy pattern found on socks and sweaters, and an apt name for the latest kooky spy caper from Matthew Vaughn. Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024 Perhaps Winters’ latest kooky turn will also achieve that status. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023 Kenny Segal’s beats are the backbone—switching between gentle and hard, kooky and sublime—and give woods the space to lay out the life lessons, sly jokes, and observations that make the mundane sound profound. Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2023 Stracke, blonde with a peppy, Southern accent, is on the kooky side but maybe the most no-nonsense of the Housewives. Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024 So how did Groundhog Day go from a kooky local tradition to an annual celebration even those of us who don’t worry about winter can find the fun in? Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024 Of course, even the most insightful predictions often prove to be irrelevant, because in the end, nobody knows what those kooky Emmy voters are thinking except the voters themselves. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024 Kenny Segal’s varied beats are the backbone—switching between gentle and hard, kooky and sublime—and give woods the space to lay out life lessons, sly jokes, and observations that make the mundane parts of life sound so profound. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1957, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of kooky was in 1957

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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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