But there are such things as inner distances and homegrown or domestic kookiness.

It's like some obviously phoney attempt at kookiness.

Atinuke's book is full of tiny, individual portraits, and the brilliant names evoke the kookiness of the characters.

Sure, Barcelona has become a cauldron of culinary kookiness, with the foams and froths of master chef Ferran Adrià and his disciples.

All the women that I've ever admired have had a bit of kookiness to them, like Audrey Hepburn's funny layers or Björk's swan dress.