different between zany vs kooky

English

Etymology

From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a dialectal form of Giovanni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ze?ni/
• Rhymes: -e?ni
• Hyphenation: za?ny

Adjective

zany (comparative zanier, superlative zaniest)

1. Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
2. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.

Synonyms

• wacky

Derived terms

• zaniness

Translations

Noun

zany (plural zanies)

1. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.

     Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.

Verb

zany (third-person singular simple present zanies, present participle zanying, simple past and past participle zanied)

1. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.

References

• John Dover Wilson, comp. (1911) Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 2938084.

Anagrams

• Zayn, zayn

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)

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.

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