What's the difference between kooky and rooky?

Kooky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you.
  • (2) The truth: This is clever and kooky music, but obviously miles from the Kooks .
  • (3) They all followed a similar template: remember the kooky, pudding-bowl kid from About a Boy ?
  • (4) Instead, let’s focus on the Republican argument that this is a kooky misunderstanding.
  • (5) That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion.
  • (6) It's similarly disingenuous to pretend that this is a matter of a few, kooky individuals (albeit ones at the top of the Ukip hierarchy).
  • (7) Giannini's first since becoming a mother, it demonstrated two things: how she is a perfect fit for this most Italian of brands, and the move of fashion's focus from the warehouses and kooky references of London fashion week to the high-class hotels and all-out glamour of Milan.
  • (8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
  • (9) All of us can point to the kooky one, the dumb one, the OCD one in our own friendship groups.
  • (10) Perfection is out and kooky is in, say observers, and to stand out on the catwalk now you need more than a conventionally pretty face and a stick-thin physique.
  • (11) more words from the Guardian's chief pop critic Alexis Petridis Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon All its idiosyncracies of songwriting and arrangement and delivery feel meant: unlike some of the artists to whom she's been compared, you're never struck by the sensation Mvula is killing herself to appear kooky that man Alexis Petridis yet again Rudimental – Home There are impressive contributions, including one from the reliably fearsome Angel Haze, but the band's roving sensibilities – garage, house, R&B – don't always come together.
  • (12) Far less so than is normal even in the kooky looking-glass world of film.
  • (13) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
  • (14) "That makes me sound disrespectful," he says, "but I just think of these people as my kooky distant relatives," he says.
  • (15) There is an outside chance, in a film, that the heroine might be kooky or her best friend might make funny faces.
  • (16) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • (17) Displaying other talents, or having a unique selling point – whether that means being kooky and cute, showing a rare openness on social media like Delevingne, or taking on a different persona outside of modelling, such as Jourdan Dunn and her baking – helps audiences around the globe to connect, encouraging brands and designers to seek out and employ these women.
  • (18) Yet despite her own version of the hat and the waistcoat – the dyed fringe, the occultish homemade tattoos – Claire insists that Grimes is not a kooky persona that she slips on and off with her rings.
  • (19) It seemed so obvious, but everybody else seemed to think I was kooky."
  • (20) Kooky play, Pagan is on second, and the inning continues!

Rooky


Definition:

  • (a.) Misty; gloomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
  • (2) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
  • (3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
  • (4) The Rangers hit the ice looking to leverage their home advantage, and with 18,006 behind them, the plan was to pepper the rookie goalie Dustin Tokarski.
  • (5) If the stakes were high a year ago, when rookie vice-chairman Ed Woodward said Moyes was "cut from the same cloth as the Old Trafford greats who go before him", now they are that much higher still.
  • (6) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
  • (7) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
  • (8) Colorado’s MLS rookie of the year candidate, Dillon Powers, clashed heads nastily with Seattle’s Zach Scott and has been out since with concussion symptoms.
  • (9) So little, in fact, that the strategy implemented under Mayor Emanuel – sending extra officers (all rookies) to walk beats in the most violent areas – has not had the desired effect.
  • (10) The A’s pitcher Dallas Braden, then a rookie, certainly wasn’t happy with Rodriguez’ conduct – as you can see here.
  • (11) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
  • (12) Faced with a rookie goalkeeper for the whole of the second half they barely tested his shot-saving ability.
  • (13) A get a rookie phenom on the bench in Xander Bogaerts just waiting to come in and turn the series on its head, piles of starting pitching, boatloads of bullpen talent, a Cardinals team capable of scoring in droves without hitting homers and a Boston lineup that bullied the AL all season long by racking up over 850 runs, even if they haven't scored many lately .
  • (14) Myers holds up at third and it looks a little bit like the rookie pitcher isn't as comfortable as he may have alluded to in his pre-game quote.
  • (15) In his rookie year with the Rangers, 2005, he went 1-7 with a 6.94 ERA.
  • (16) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.
  • (17) Sir Alex Ferguson finds himself outdone by the rookie in the other dug-out but everyone else who has contended for prizes this season has suffered the same experience against Barcelona.
  • (18) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
  • (19) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
  • (20) A fine run by the rookie who will be feeling good after donating the Packers first seven points just minutes ago.

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