kinky

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From kink +‎ -y.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɪŋ.ki/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋki

Adjective[edit]

kinky (comparative kinkier, superlative kinkiest)

  1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
    kinky hair
    • 1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
      It seemed that there had never been a time when he had not known this moment of waiting while the packed church paused—the sisters in white, heads raised, the brothers in blue, heads back; the white caps of the women seeming to glow in the charged air like crowns, the kinky, gleaming heads of the men seeming to be lifted up— […]
  2. (informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
    • 1985, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1986, →ISBN, page 155:
      […] To be asked to play Scrabble […] seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way.
    • 1994, Roberta Perkins, Sex Work and Sex Workers in Australia, page ii:
      Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex […]
    • 2002, Lyla Verone, The Interview:
      Scars on my back were revealed from when I was whipped by a sadomasochistic ex-lover. I wondered if it bothered anyone, but it only seemed to make everyone harder than they already were. I was a kinky girl.
  3. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English kinky.

Adjective[edit]

kinky (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) kinky (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior)
    Hon är lite kinky
    She's a bit kinky

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