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🌀 Eccentric group 🤪 Strange behavior
kookery

kookery

9.9
A group of people who have strange ideas and behavior
  • noun
  • /ˈkuːkəri/
  • Informal
translation icon : excentricidad
  • The kookery at the fair was truly entertaining.

Examples

  • What a delightful mix of kookery and talent!

  • The film was a perfect example of kookery, featuring characters with outlandish beliefs and bizarre behaviors.

  • The online forum quickly turned into a kookery filled with bizarre conspiracy theories.

  • Some people enjoy the kookery of fringe art communities and their unconventional ideas.

  • His new friends introduced him to a kookery of odd traditions and beliefs.

  • They found themselves in a community of kookery, where everyone embraced unconventional ideas and quirky lifestyles.

  • His artwork reflected a certain kookery, showcasing surreal themes and eccentric interpretations of reality.

Synonyms

eccentricity
vskookery
15 7.8

Unusual behavior or habits that are different from what most people do

is about a social setting formed by such people and their unusual ideas
kookiness
vskookery
1 7.1

A quality of being strange and playful that makes people smile

describes the whole social scene of such playful people and their ideas
outlandishness
vskookery
1 8.4

Being very unusual in appearance, ideas, or behavior

is used for a place made up of such extreme people and ideas

How Eccentric

fringe
64 6.8
kookery
  • Informal
9.9
scene
355 3.1
circle
318 3.3

Surface Forms

kookery singular
kookeries plural

Morphology

kookery = kook (semi-transparent) = kook + ery

The suffix '-ery' indicates a place or condition associated with 'kook', but the specific meaning of an environment of eccentricity is not fully transparent.

Etymology

Kookery comes from the slang kook ('an odd or crazy person') plus the ending -ery (a place or collection). Think of a 'place of kooks'—like cookery is where cooks work—so kookery names a group or scene full of eccentric people.