Dictionary

kinky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈkɪŋki/

Etymology

From kink + -y. Compare Spanish canquiñi (“nappy”).

Meanings

1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
   • 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—[…] 1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
   • kinky hair
2. (informal) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
   • We begin to see that a kinky relationship is complex and difficult to maintain. And yet, Sir Sultan Stud’s harem arrangement is only the tip of the iceberg. Kinky people are capable of amazingly complicated relationships that are not for the faint of heart. 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 31:
   • 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. 2002, Lyla Verone, The Interview:
   • Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex[…] 1994, Roberta Perkins, Sex Work and Sex Workers in Australia, page ii:
   • What had I been expecting, behind that closed door, the first time? At the very least some minor sexual manipulation, some bygone peccadillo now denied him, prohibited by law and punishable by amputation. To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way. 1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163:
3. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

Forms

Antonyms

normophilic

Deriveds

kinkiness · kinkily · kinky hair disease · Menkes kinky hair syndrome · nonkinky · unkinky

Translations (72)

mi koromeke (full of kinks) · bg с чупки (full of kinks) · nl kinky (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ro excentric (queer, eccentric) · es extraño (queer, eccentric) · ca pervertit (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · pl zboczony (full of kinks) · hu hóbortos (queer, eccentric) · de sexy (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · fr crépu (full of kinks) · ro cârlionțat (full of kinks) · pt pervertido (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ka გარყვნილი (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ro zulufat (full of kinks) · fr excentrique (queer, eccentric) · ro pervers (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · sv kinky (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · es excéntrico (queer, eccentric) · ru ненорма́льный (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · fr pervers (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · bg извит (full of kinks) · fi sykeröinen (full of kinks) · pt enrolado (full of kinks) · es pervertido (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ka გრუზა (full of kinks) · ka ხუჭუჭა (full of kinks) · no kinky (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · hu perverz (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ru кудря́вый (full of kinks) · nl krullig (full of kinks) · fr kinky (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ro extravagant (queer, eccentric) · hu ferde hajlamú (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · it eccentrico (queer, eccentric) · hu szexéhes (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ka თავისებური (queer, eccentric) · ht grenn (full of kinks) · eo ekstravaganca (queer, eccentric) · bg странен (queer, eccentric) · ro bizar (queer, eccentric) · es fetichista (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · fi outo (queer, eccentric) · ro buclat (full of kinks) · de pervers (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ro ondulat (full of kinks) · fi omituinen (queer, eccentric) · ro creț (full of kinks) · it pervertito (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · de kraus (full of kinks) · nv tʼáá ádíláahgo naanéhígíí (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · la cincinnātus (full of kinks) · ka ექსცენტრიული (queer, eccentric) · hu göndör (full of kinks) · hu bogaras (queer, eccentric) · ca cresp (full of kinks) · fr bouclé (full of kinks) · es crespo (full of kinks) · hu csomós (full of kinks) · fi sykkyräinen (full of kinks) · ru своеобра́зный (queer, eccentric) · de verdreht (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · bg ексцентричен (queer, eccentric) · hu szexuálisan deviáns (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · es ensortijado (full of kinks) · fi säkkärä (full of kinks) · ru извращённый (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · bg извратен (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior) · ru кучеря́вый (full of kinks) · ru курча́вый (full of kinks) · ru эксцентри́чный (queer, eccentric) · es rizado (full of kinks) · ca depravat (marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior)