kinky

Meaning

  1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
  2. (informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
  3. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

Synonyms

perverted
C2
frizzy
40k
peculiar
C1
weird
A2
funny
A1
😄
kink
31k
far-out
crisp
C2
strange
A2
eccentric
C2
nappy
22k
curious
B1
wacky
C2
odd
B1
way-out
whacky
offbeat
freaky
C1
perverse
C2
frizzly
queer
C1
quirky
20k
curly
C1
skew
slant
28k
slanting
spry
43k
stroppy
transverse
45k
twisted
B2
wavy
29k
woolen
43k
woolly
24k
wry
31k

tightly coiled

addlepated
flakey
askew
41k
awry
26k
bizarre
C1
cantankerous
cockeyed
33k
crackpot
22k
crotchety
devious
C2
eldritch
energetic
C2
flaky
25k
fleecy
freakish
35k
Translations

pervers
verdreht
encaracolado
bizzarro
pervertido
schrullig
verkorkst
pervers
abartig
abnorm
pervertito
bizarro
eccentrico
retorcido
Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɪŋ.ki/
Etymology

Cognate with Spanish
canquiñi
In summary

From kink + -y. Compare Spanish canquiñi (“nappy”).

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