Kinky

Definition: Kinky

Kinky

Adjective

1. (used of sexual behavior) "kinky sex"; "perverted practices".

2. In small tight curls.

3. Informal terms; strikingly unconventional.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "kinky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Kinky

Caprice

Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Convolution

Involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky, knotted.

Curvature

Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular.

Kinky! Sign here (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

Kinky! Sign here (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

Kinky kite kits. (references; author: unknown)

Kinky Les (1967)

Kinky Couples (1980)

House of Kinky Pleasures (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Eat, Drink, and Be Kinky: A Feast of Wit and Fabulous Recipes for Fans of Kinky Friedman (reference)

• Kinky (reference)

• Kinky and Blissful (reference)

• When Someone You Love Is Kinky (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hideous Kinky (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Kinky (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Th' kinky, dandy, slinkin' slim. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The characteristic kinky hair is stubby, tangled, sparse, or steely and is easily broken. (references)

In a few cases of IP, extremely wooly or kinky hair and an immune system dysfunction may also appear. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "kinky": kinky hair ♦ kinky yarn ♦ Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome. Additional references.

Albanian

i përdredhur (convolute, crooked, tortile, twisted), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, potty, queer, soft, touched, up the pole, wacky, zany), ситно къдрав (fuzzy), хомосексуален (gay, homosexual), ексцентричен (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, lunatic, off beat, original, outrageous, outre, peculiar, pixilated, queer, singular, viewy), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild), извратен (crooked, depraved, distorted, perverse, perverted, sick), извит (arched, bended, cranked, crooked, curly, curve, curved, falcate, falciform, flexous, hooked, incurved, meandering, round, tortile, tortuous, twisted). (various references)

Chinese 

淫 (excessive, lewd, obscene, wanton), 卷毛 (Curl). (various references)

Czech

výstředný, plný svérázných nápadù, excentrický. (various references)

Danish

filtret garn (kinky yarn). (various references)

Dutch

krinkelig garen (kinky yarn), drallerig garen (kinky yarn). (various references)

Farsi 

فرفری (Curly), پیچ خورده (Swept, Wound), موی وزکرده , گره خورده . (various references)

Finnish

mennä sykkyrään (become kinky, get tangled, kink). (various references)

French

fil vrillé (kinky yarn). (various references)

German

verkorkst (ruined, screwed up, upset), pervers (gay, perverse, perversely, perverted, sick, warped). (various references)

Greek 

πλήρησ κόμβων, εκκεντρισμόσ (eccentric), λοξόσ (askew, awry, cockeyed, crackpot, devious, oblique, rakish, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, transverse, wry). (various references)

Hungarian

szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, maggoty, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, wanton, whimsical), perverz (perverse, wrong-headed), göndör (crinkly, crisp, crispy, curly, frizzed, frizzy, fuzzy, ringleted, ringlety), csomós (bunchy, gnarled, gnarly, knaggy, knotty, lumpy, nodular, nodulose, scraggy, snagged), bogaras (buggy, crazed, crazy, dorky, eccentric, fanciful, have a little finger ache, maggoty). (various references)

Indonesian

keriting (crimp, curl, mucky). (various references)

Italian

ingarbugliato (knotty, matted, tangled), eccentrico (aberrational, eccentric, erratic, nutty, queer, way out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

癖毛 (kinky or curly hair), 縮れ毛 (curly or kinky or frizzy hair), キロ連量 (10^9, gear, gear change, gearshift, giga-, gigaton, guitar, January 15., king, King Dome, King Holiday, king salmon, kingmaker, King's English, king-size, kinky boots, kinky look, Kiwanis Club, ream weight, weight of 1000 sheets of paper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くせげ (kinky or curly hair), キンキーブーツ (kinky boots), キンキールック (kinky look), ちぢれげ (curly or kinky or frizzy hair). (various references)

Korean 

비꼬인. (various references)

Pig Latin

inkykay.(various references)

Portuguese

retorcido (twisted, winding, wry), excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, lunatic, madcap, odd, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wiper, wobbler), estranho (alien, awkward, curious, eerie, eery, extraneous, foreign, mysterious, novel, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, unaccountable, uncanny, unco, unfamiliar, unknown, way-out, weird), enroscado, bizarro (antic, bizarre, freakish, odd, quaint, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Romanian

creţ (crease, Crimp, crisp, curly, curly haired, frizzy, pleated, ridge, wrinkle), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), cârlionţat (crimped, curled, frizzled, waved). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), курчавый (crimpy, ringleted, ringlety). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kovrdžav (curly, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, ringleted, ringlety), nastran (crotchety, cussed, extravagant, oddish, queer, screwy, wrongheaded). (various references)

Spanish

torcido (askew, awry, bent, crooked, distorted, furious, strained, turned, wry), rizado (crimped, crisp, curling, curly, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy), retorcido (convolute, gnarled, twisted), peculiar (particular, peculiar, quirky), extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird), excéntrico (crackpot, eccentric, eccentrical, nut, oddball, oddbod, offbeat, original, screwball), ensortijado (curly, in ringlets), enroscado (angry, coiled), de gustos sexuales pervertidos, arrugado (creased, lined, seamy, shrivelled, wizened, wrinkled). (various references)

Swedish

krullig (crisp, curly, frizzly, frizzy), excentrisk (cranky, eccentric, erratic, far out, far-out, off-centre). (various references)

Turkish

karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), sapıkça, müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), dolaşık (circuitous, entangled, entwined, foul, mazy, tortuous), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references)

Ukrainian

кучерявий (crimpy, curling, curly, frizzly, frizzy, fuzzy, waved, wavy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quăn (crispate, crispy, curling, curly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Kinky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akinci, hinky, Ikkyu, jinky, Kanaky, kicky, kiki, kikni, kinch, kincky, Kincl, kindy, kingy, kinko, Kinny, kinry, Kinsy, kiny, Kliskey, knify, konk, kunky, minky, Ninky, oinky, rinky, skanky, tinky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inky, kink.

-2 letters: ink, kin, yin.

-3 letters: in.

+2 letters: kinkily, yakking, yukking.

+3 letters: kayaking, kolinsky.

+4 letters: kayakings.

+5 letters: skyjacking, skylarking.