dictionary definitions for "wacky"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  wacky
      adj 1: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not
             going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky
             plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie,
             cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky,
             whacky, zany]
      2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
         drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats,
         batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft,
         dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco,
         loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, {around
         the bend}, wacky, whacky]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large
     stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)
     A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the
     alteration of basalt.
     [1913 Webster]


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