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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See cook.
Wiktionary
- n. an eccentric, strange or crazy person; a weirdo.
- n. A board sport participant who has poor style or skill.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
Etymologies
- Possibly from cuckoo.
Examples
“We won't see a positive growth in jobs until this leftist liberal kook is out of office!”
“#107 – Well, since Little Miss Amy has gone round the bend and gotten drunk of all the winger kool-aide, we can just write her off as Ms. Krazy Kookie-kook from the hicksville of kookies.”
“In addition to Barrie Zwicker and Antonia Zerbisias, another left-wing kook is plugging whatreallyhappened. com: Australian "futurist" Richard Neville, whom you may have heard of through the much-deserved smackdowns regularly laid upon him by Tex and Tim Blair.”
“If some kook from the opposite political view disagrees with you it doesn’t matter cause they’re just an idiot, but when someone from your political spectrum starts questioning things it undermines your belief system.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
“If he gets that upset about his lemonade and he calls 911 … This guy is a freakin kook.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Guy calls 911 because Burger King is out of lemonade
“BECK: This is something that, I mean, I ` ve been called a kook now for almost a year talking about Iran.”
“May 14th, 2006 at 6:30 am leslie253- Maybe we should start calling the kook-aid crowd, the left behind people instead.”
“Texas-a man I'd never call a kook, and I don't propose to do so now, even though he has made some common cause with kooks on this issue-has said that he understood where the criticism of Obama was coming from.”
“Already the Labor party are discussing sceptics as deniers and promoters of conspiracies (Monckton was basically described as a kook in Parliament yesterday for his interpretation of the proposed climate treaty).”
“Well, first of all, we have to ask, what kind of kook are you?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kook’.
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 107 more...
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Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 80 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
goto the good people list
( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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September Words-11337
During the month of September, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has...
flabbergasted, discombobulated, inclination, serendipity, savvy, profound, incarnation, myriad, confiscate, audacity, deciduous, adieu and 79 more...
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Keyboard Hopscotch
You may start on any key. You may repeat a character, or travel to an adjacent key on the keyboard. On my qwerty keyboard, I may follow s with w, e, d, x, z, a, or (repeating) s. (If you use az...
assert, weeds, trews, treed, sewer, sewed, seeds, sawer, sawed, reeds, erred, asses and 65 more...
fbharjo a strange duck?!?! Mar 16, 2012
Alexis Perez person of strange behavior/ sentence- He's a real kook about cleanliness.(Newbury House Dictionary) Sep 25, 2010