What's the difference between buggy and wacky?

Buggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
  • (n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
  • (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
  • (2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
  • (3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
  • (4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
  • (5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
  • (6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
  • (7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
  • (8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
  • (9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
  • (10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
  • (11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
  • (13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
  • (14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
  • (15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
  • (16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
  • (17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
  • (18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
  • (19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
  • (20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.

Wacky


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
  • (2) Shaw, a veteran of the Falklands and Iraq wars, also said the MoD had to be prepared to embrace unconventional and "wacky" ideas if the military wanted to catch up with, and then stay ahead of, rivals in the cybersphere.
  • (3) "They don't have any out-and-out wacky contestants – the Jedwards and the Wagners – and I think they are key to the joy of the show," he said.
  • (4) As she prepares to launch her final bid to become America’s first female president, the question posed by her best friend booms out loud: why funny and wacky to those who love her, yet to others a self-aggrandizing shrew?
  • (5) In the wacky parallel universe where this suit succeeds and sets a precedent, lots of countries could have a case for "unrealistic portrayal": Mongolia National pride offended by perhaps the worst casting decision of all time, when John Wayne played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror .
  • (6) Schmidt's visit to Burma comes after trips to Libya, Afghanistan and North Korea, which he said was a "truly wacky place".
  • (7) Like someone's first time at Ascot, unsure of how wacky to go with their hat.
  • (8) The Globes can be notoriously wacky – this time round, in a good way.
  • (9) Then somebody pointed out a "slightly wacky" advertisement for a deputy head in Essex.
  • (10) Kevin Rudd has backed a 20% company tax rate for the Northern Territory – 10 percentage points lower than the rest of the country – as part of a northern economic plan very similar to a Coalition strategy labelled "wacky" and "crazy" by Labor ministers earlier in the year.
  • (11) Sadly, these hopes may also belong in a wacky parallel universe.
  • (12) Ballmer, whose wacky "monkey dance" and enthusiasm had once shown him to be a loose, fun manager, was not the man of vision that his predecessor, Bill Gates, was.
  • (13) That's just… That's not walk-off interference call levels of wackiness but damn close.
  • (14) We’re already fighting against constitutional “personhood” status for zygotes and attempts to defund a woman’s health organization thanks to the 3% it spends performing abortions, so perhaps the anti-choice movement has reached peak wacky.
  • (15) United States of America Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.
  • (16) Allen does not, you'll be glad to hear, explain how to manoeuvre a Gillette razor effortlessly around that tricky bit near your jaw line, nor is she using her position to point out that all of your wacky ties need to be rolled into a ball and thrown in a lake.
  • (17) Oh, and speaking of wacky hi-jinks, lest we forget .
  • (18) There was clear anger among Tory high command at the latest intervention by the outspoken Mid Bedfordshire MP, with one senior source describing her comments as "completely wacky".
  • (19) Harry Redknapp's team showed their spirit and, in a wacky game of contrasting halves, they missed a penalty and nearly completed an outlandish comeback against a Fulham side that finished with 10 men after the harsh dismissal of Steve Sidwell.
  • (20) • How goes the government's wacky restriction on books being sent to prisoners?

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