kinky

adjective

1. 1

   Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.

   kinky hair

   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. 2

   informalMarked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.

   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.

   Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex[…]

   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.

   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.

3. 3

   Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

Forms

comparative

kinkier

superlative

kinkiest