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Silly and strange in a way that people. You use it about people, ideas, clothes, shows and plans: 'a wacky sense of humour', 'her wacky hats', 'a wacky comedy'. The important part is the feeling — 'wacky' is friendly. Calling someone wacky says you enjoy them.
Silly and strange in a way that amuses people傻里傻氣、怪得讓人覺得好笑的。You use it about people, ideas, clothes, shows and plans可以用來形容人、想法、衣服、節目和計畫: 'a wacky sense of humour', 'her wacky hats', 'a wacky comedy'像 'a wacky sense of humour'（古怪的幽默感）、'her wacky hats'（她那些怪帽子）、'a wacky comedy'（一部無厘頭喜劇）。The important part is the feeling重點在那種感覺 — 'wacky' is friendly'wacky' 是友善的。Calling someone wacky says you enjoy them說一個人 wacky，代表你喜歡他這個樣子。
It is informal and slightly old-fashioned in a harmless way; you see it a lot in advertising, on children's TV, and on the back of DVD boxes ('a wacky new comedy'). Because have used it so much, it can sound a bit tired to younger speakers, who might say 'random' or 'unhinged' instead.
It is informal and slightly old-fashioned in a harmless way這個字很口語，也帶點無害的老派感; you see it a lot in advertising, on children's TV, and on the back of DVD boxes常出現在廣告、兒童節目、DVD 封底上 ('a wacky new comedy')（像 'a wacky new comedy'）。Because advertisers have used it so much因為廣告用這個字用得太多了, it can sound a bit tired to younger speakers對年輕一輩來說可能聽起來有點老套, who might say 'random' or 'unhinged' instead他們可能會改說 'random' 或 'unhinged'。
There is a limit to the friendliness, though. When 'wacky' is used about a serious plan — 'his wacky scheme to get rich' — it stops being a compliment and becomes a gentle way of saying the plan will not work. Same word, and you tell which one is meant from what it describes: a wacky person is fun, a wacky plan is doomed.
There is a limit to the friendliness, though不過這種友善也是有限度的。When 'wacky' is used about a serious plan當 'wacky' 用在一個正經的計畫上 — 'his wacky scheme to get rich'像 'his wacky scheme to get rich'（他那個想發財的荒唐計畫） — it stops being a compliment就不再是稱讚 and becomes a gentle way of saying the plan will not work而變成委婉地說這個計畫行不通。Same word, and you tell which one is meant from what it describes同一個字，要看它形容的是什麼才知道是哪個意思: a wacky person is fun, a wacky plan is doomeda wacky person 是有趣的，a wacky plan 卻是注定失敗的。
組成whack (to hit something hard) + -y (an ending that turns a thing or action into a describing word). The old idea was of someone who had knocked their head too many times and so behaved oddly.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wackyadj詞源 1/ˈwæk.iː/
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slanginformalZany; eccentric.
- Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.
- How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions? They seem to get wackier all the time.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。