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Kinky   /kˈɪŋki/   Listen
Kinky

adjective
1.
(used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes.  Synonym: perverted.  "Perverted practices"
2.
(of hair) in small tight curls.  Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy.
3.
Informal terms; strikingly unconventional.  Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out.






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"Kinky" Quotes from Famous Books



... man for me," his action seemed to say. "See how I value that good and faithful servant. That man collected much rubber. You observe I do not ask how he got it. I will not ask you. All you need do is to collect rubber. Use our improved methods. Gum copal rubbed in the kinky hair of the chief and then set on fire burns, so my agents tell me, like vitriol. For collecting rubber the chief is no longer valuable, but to his successor it is an object-lesson. Let me recommend also the chicotte, ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

... Nigger No. 2 said not a word, but kept at his work. Nigger No. 1 swore and stormed more. Nigger No. 2 said not a word. Nigger No. 1 frothed still more. Nigger No. 2, still silent. Nigger No. 1 got desperate and said: "Look here, you kinky-headed, flat-nosed, slab-footed nigger, I warns you 'fore God, don't you keep givin' me none o' your damned silence!" I wish you'd tell all ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... fingers were interlocked, the close-clipped, kinky heads were bowed upon them; the master of the house bent reverently over his plate; the plump young wife crossed her hands demurely on the bright handle of the big coffee-pot by which she stood, and "Bre'er 'Liab," clasping his slender fingers, uplifted his eyes and hands to heaven, ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee



Words linked to "Kinky" :   curly, unnatural, kink, abnormal, unconventional



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