adj. (colloquial).—Eccentric; short tempered; TWISTY (q.v.).
1848. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel, p. 146. The KINKY-HEADED cus looked at me sideways, and rolled the whites of his eyes at me like he was gwine to have a fit of nidryfoby.
1889. The Sportsman, 2 Jan. At the former the KINKY ones and the worthy souls who play hole-and-corner with society are made to partake of the toke of contrition and the skilly of repentance.
