English abbreviation dictionary - wacky
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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also whacky (wackier, wackiest) If you describe something or someone as wacky, you mean that they are eccentric, unusual, and often funny. (INFORMAL) ...a wacky new television comedy series... ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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also whacky adjective (wackier; -est) Etymology: perhaps from English dialect whacky fool Date: circa 1935 absurdly or amusingly eccentric or irrational ; crazy ~ ideas a ~ comedian • wackily adverb • wackiness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. (also whacky) sl. --adj. (-ier, -iest) crazy. --n. (pl. -ies) a crazy person. Derivatives wackily adv. wackiness n. Etymology: orig. dial., = left-handed, f. WHACK ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ам. сл. эксцентричный; со странностями; дурацкий, идиотский (о поступках, идеях и т. п.) 2. ненадежный wacky news —- непроверенное (сомнительное) сообщение ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- "crazy, eccentric," 1935, variant of whacky (n.) "fool," late 1800s British slang, probably ultimately from whack "a blow, stroke," from the notion of being whacked on the head one too many times. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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