What is the difference between wack and wacky?
wack | wacky | Derived terms |
Egregious
(From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
(slang) crazy, mad, insane
Of a person or their behaviour, zany.
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Wack is a derived term of wacky.
As adjectives the difference between wack and wacky
is that wack is egregious while wacky is of a person or their behaviour, zany.As nouns the difference between wack and wacky
is that wack is an eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo while wacky is (wacke).wack
English
Adjective
(er)- Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .
Synonyms
* wackjob * wackowacky
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor. }}