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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" [syn: kinky, perverted]
2: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]
3: informal terms; strikingly unconventional [syn: far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (kinkier; -est) Date: 1844 1. closely twisted or curled 2. relating to, having, or appealing to unconventional tastes especially in sex; also sexually deviant 3. outlandish, far-out • kinkily adverb • kinkiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (kinkier, kinkiest) 1 colloq. a given to or involving abnormal sexual behaviour. b (of clothing etc.) bizarre in a sexually provocative way. 2 strange, eccentric. 3 having kinks or twists. Derivatives: kinkily adv. kinkiness n. Etymology: KINK + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kinky Kink"y, a. 1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair. 2. Queer; eccentric; crotchety. [Colloq. U.S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(kinkier, kinkiest) If you describe something, usually a sexual practice or preference, as kinky, you mean that it is unusual and would be considered strange by most people. (INFORMAL) He had been engaging in some kind of kinky sexual activity. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

Bohemian, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, beat, bizarre, breakaway, capricious, crank, crankish, cranky, crimped, crisp, crisped, crispy, crotchety, curled, curly, degenerate, depraved, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far out, fey, flaky, freakish, free and easy, fringy, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, funny, harebrained, heretical, heterodox, hippie, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, informal, irregular, kinked, knotted, kooky, maggoty, maverick, moody, motiveless, not cricket, not done, not kosher, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, outre, peculiar, perverted, petulant, queer, quirky, screwball, screwy, singular, strange, tangled, temperamental, twisted, ultra, unconventional, unfashionable, unique, unnatural, unorthodox, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, warped, way out, wayward, weird, whimsical, wiry