What does wicky mean in the phrase ‘wicky wacky day’
meaning
"wacky" means "strange odd". What does wicky mean in the phrase 'wicky wacky day'?
Best Answer
It's a kind of reduplication. It has no meaning in itself; it's sound-play that only serves to intensify, to make it wackier.
Why "wicky"? This is a vowel-shift reduplication, and many of these have a tense-lax sequence. Mishmash, pitter-patter, riffraff, crisscross are given in that article. Another in the same spirit is splish splash.
The word "couple" literally means two of something. We routinely refer to two people in a romantic relationship as a "couple". The word "odd" means unusual or strange.
The original 1968 movie was about two men who were sharing an apartment and who were wildly incompatible: one was fastidiously neat and the other very messy, one was culturally refined and the other very casual, etc. So they didn't fit together well as a couple. They were a strange pair, an "odd" "couple".
Apparently there's a 2015 TV series with the same title. I haven't seen it (I don't get broadcast TV any more), but from a description it appears to be a remake of the old movie.
(There was no indication in the movie that they were homosexual, by the way, they were just two friends sharing an apartment.)
Best Answer
It's a kind of reduplication. It has no meaning in itself; it's sound-play that only serves to intensify, to make it wackier.
Why "wicky"? This is a vowel-shift reduplication, and many of these have a tense-lax sequence. Mishmash, pitter-patter, riffraff, crisscross are given in that article. Another in the same spirit is splish splash.