kook en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kuːk/
- ko͞ok
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Possibly from cuckoo.
Meanings
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(US, slang) An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
The administration’s deep cuts to scientific and medical research have been compounded by Trump’s decision to hand control of public health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a bona fide kook,[…].
2025 April 29, Jonathan Chait, “An Unsustainable Presidency”, in The Atlantic:The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks. They had to pick up their kook phone, subscribe to the kook newsletter, drive to the kook convention. Nowadays, all the kook has to do is log in to Facebook, where his feed will be enlivened by the chatter of fellow — and likely more extreme — kooks, toward which Facebook’s algorithms helpfully steer him.
2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times:
- A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kooks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
kooky · kookish · kookism · kookologist · kookery · kookdance · kookology · kookily · kookfest · kook cord · kookie · kookdom · kookness · kook out
Synonyms
screwball · weirdo · queer fish · dingbat · loony tune · nutcase · fruit and nut case · live one · weirdo · psychoceramic · fruit loop · crazyhead · wingnut · oddball · nutburger · lunatic · odd fish · nutter · fruitloop · crack · coot · odd bod · odd duck · basket weaver · rum · strangeling · kook · head case · madcap · weirdie · wacko · wacko · space case · nutjob · wingnut · weirdling · eccentric · hard case · nut · schizo · crackpot · nutter · freak · crank · odd duck · space pilot · queerdo · wack · strange fish · madhead · mental case · wackadoo · fruit cake · nut ball · oddity · whacko · weirdo · bizarro · nutbar · strange bird · basket case · loony · nutjob · unconventional · nutbar · wackadoodle · crackpot · nutcase · wild man · nutbag · psycho · crazy · kook · eccentric · whackjob · glaik · space cadet
Translations (13)
cs mimoň (boardsport participant who lacks style or skill) · cs blázen (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · fi hullu (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · es chiflado (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · nb gærning (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · cs podivín (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · fi sekopää (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · nb eksentriker (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · sh čudak (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · de Spinner (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · fi kahjo (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · ru чуда́к (eccentric, strange or crazy person) · de Exzentriker (eccentric, strange or crazy person)