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Zany vs Kooky - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between zany and kooky

is that zany is unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish while kooky is eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane.

As a noun zany

is (obsolete) a fool or clown especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.

zany

English

Adjective

(er)
  • unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish
  • ludicrously or incongruously comical

    • Synonyms

    * wacky

    Derived terms

    * zaniness

    Noun

    (zanies)
  • (obsolete) A fool or clown. Especially one whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown
  • * John Donne
    • Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground. You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.

    References

    * 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

    kooky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane.
    • his kooky behavior seemed charming at first
  • (surfing) Behaving like a kook (person with poor style or skill); kook-like.

    • Synonyms

    * wacky * nuts * outlandish * bonkers

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