wicky-wack
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.
Example Sentences
- "He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp."
- "Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch."
- "A horse may also exhibit trotting or walking motion in either his front or hind legs along with a cantering motion from the other pair, producing an odd half canter, half something else. […] This gait is so common in gaited horses that it has a specific name in some languages, although the closest term for it in English is "wicky wack.""
- "'Bring Me To Life' was accompanied by a video in which Lee jumped off a building and sang the song on her way down, scoring with its combination of Lee's soaring larynx and some rapped interludes, plus the requisite big guitars and some wicky-wack scratching."
- "Except it quite obviously is. If anything, the music in Friends With Benefits is worse than the music in, say, Sleepless in Seattle; either the sort of tinpot wicky-wack scratchy guff that middle-aged men with ponytails think kids listen to at parties, or soggy ukulele nonsense."
Inflected Forms
more wicky-wack (comparative)
most wicky-wack (superlative)