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kooky
English
Etymology
kook +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ku?ki/, /?k?ki/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kuki/
- Rhymes: -u?ki
- Hyphenation: koo?ky
Adjective
kooky (comparative kookier, superlative kookiest)
- (slang) Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
- (surfing) Behaving like a kook (a person with poor style or skill); kook-like.
Alternative forms
- kookie
Synonyms
- bonkers
- kookish
- nuts
- outlandish
- wacky
Antonyms
- conventional
- mainstream
- normal
- ordinary
- straight
- uneccentric
Related terms
- kook
- kookily
- kookish
- kookishness
- kookology
Translations
Anagrams
- Kokyo, Kyoko, koyok
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looky
English
Alternative forms
- lookee, lookie
Etymology
None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzell’s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.
According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875–80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here) …”.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ki
Verb
looky
- (sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look.
- 1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. [1]
- "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"
- 1936, The American Mercury
- "Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"
- 1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. [1]
Usage notes
Looky is almost always used imperatively, and followed by "here", "there", or "at".
See also
- lookit
References
- Sihler, Andrew Littleton. Language History: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2000. p. 6. [2]
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