From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: pungent adjectives of disesteem; "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}, {whacky}, {zany}, {unreasonable}]
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}, {whacky}] [also: {wackiest}, {wackier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "wacky": abnormal, absurd, anomalous, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, cockeyed, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, credulous, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, demented, deranged, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dizzy, doting, dotty, dumb, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fatuitous, fatuous, fey, flaky, flipped, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, freaked-out, freakish, fruitcakey, fruity, fuddled, funny, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, harebrained, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad, maggoty, maudlin, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, peculiar, potty, preposterous, queer, quirky, round the bend, sappy, screwball, screwballs, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, singular, slaphappy, strange, stupid, thoughtless, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wet, whimsical, witless
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