From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large
stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)
A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the
alteration of basalt.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wacky
adj 1: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not
going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky
plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamie},
{cockamamy}, {goofy}, {sappy}, {silly}, {wacky},
{whacky}, {zany}]
2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats},
{batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft},
{dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco},
{loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]
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