Wacky

Definition: Wacky

Wacky

Adjective

1. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books".

2. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Wacky

Crosswords: Wacky

My suggestion is to just ride it out, make the occasional smart-aleck quip, and next week, we'll return right to where we were, ready for another wacky adventure (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Love makes you do the wacky. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Wacky fun. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

In regards to our roles, maybe we should be wacky siblings (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972)

Wacky Taxi (1972)

The Wacky Playboy (1964)

Happy Go Wacky (1952)

Wicket Wacky (1951)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mark Kister's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook: The Companion Sketchbook to Drawing in 3-D With Mark Kistler (reference)

• Summer Madness: The Wild, Wacky, Wonderful World of Wnba (reference)

• Wacky Wednesday (reference)

• Wild & Wacky Totally True Bible Stories: Value Pack Featuring Frank Peretti As Mr. Henry [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Wacky Business Ideas (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ranma 1/2 Random Rhapsody - Wacky Winter Wonderland (Vol. 5) (reference)

• Wacky Babies & Tender Times (reference)

• Marty Stouffer's Wild America - Wacky Babies (reference)

• Tom & Jerry's Wild and Wacky Adventures (reference)

• Wacky Adventures (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Box of Funny Wacky Favorites [BOX SET] (reference)

• The Wacky World of Spike Jones (reference)

• Wacky Westerns (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Wacky Worlds (reference)

• Soundesign 3633 Wacky Wake-Up Alarm Clock Radio (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

torolloz, i një lloji tjetër (pixilated), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غريب على نحو مضحك, ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, kinky, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, potty, queer, soft, touched, up the pole, zany), чалнат (Batty). (various references)

Farsi 

گیج (Astound, Astray, Dizzy, Giddy, Harebrained, Hazy, Stupid), حواس پرت , خرف (Idiot, Senile). (various references)

French

farfelu, cinglé. (various references)

German

verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, whimsical, wild, zany), exzentrisch (eccentric, fantastic). (various references)

Greek 

εκκεντρικόσ (aberrational, bizarre, crackpot, cranky, eccentric, erratic, fogey, fogy, notional, pixilated, screw-ball, weirdie). (various references)

Hungarian

kiszámíthatatlan (erratic, imponderable, incalculable, unpredictable). (various references)

Indonesian

bloon (stupid). (various references)

Italian

strambo (eccentric, odd, queer, rummy, strange, weirdie, weirdo), pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, raving, screwy, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackyway.(various references)

Portuguese

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, witless), louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving), excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, weird, whimsical, wobbler), desequilibrado (off-balance, top-heavy, touched, unbalanced). (various references)

Russian 

чокнутый (crackpot, off one's dot, off one's rocker, scatty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ćaknut (batty, cracked, crackers, harebrained, moonstruck, queer, soft, soft-headed, touched, whacky). (various references)

Spanish

chiflado (barmy, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, freak, loon, loony, Loopy, mad, madly, nut, nutter, off his head, off one's nut, screwy, touched, trolley), absurdo (absurd, absurdity, absurdness, absurdum, blah, blether, farce, farcical, incongruous, irrational, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, screwy, silly). (various references)

Swedish

knasig (barmy, Batty, dippy, draft, fruity, gaga, half-baked, kookie, kooky, Loopy, mental, nutty, off one's head, off one's nuts, potty, scatty, screwy, touched, wet), knäpp (barmy, bent, click, cracked, dippy, fillip, flick, flip, kinky, kookie, kooky, screwy, snap). (various references)

Turkish

sapık (aberrant, Dotty, perverse, pervert, perverted, unnatural), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, waffle, whacky), manyak (dippy, maniac, maniacal, manic), mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, illogical, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequent, inconsequential, injudicious, insensate, irrational, opaque, preposterous, senseless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, whacky). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, silly, unreasonable, witless), ненадійний (chancy, faithless, fallible, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, ramshackle, shifty, tickle, treacherous, trustless, truthless, unassured, unreliable, unsafe, unsure, untrustworthy, whacky), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, whacky, whimsical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điên điên. (various references)

Misspellings

"Wacky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akcay, Awcc, gacky, hacky, nacky, wack, wackey, wackie, wakey, waky, wanky, weck, whacky, wicki, wicksy, wiky, wisky, wock, wocky, Zwack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: caky, wack, yack.

-2 letters: caw, cay, kay, way, yak, yaw.

-3 letters: aw, ay, ka, ya.

+1 letter: whacky.

+2 letters: wackily.

+3 letters: rockaway, swayback, trackway.

+4 letters: fancywork, graywacke, rockaways, swaybacks, trackways.

+5 letters: backwardly, backwoodsy, fancyworks, graywackes, swaybacked.