kook
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8.8
- noun
- /kuːk/
- Offensive
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loco
- The old kook's just crazy about seafood.
- a crazy kook
- call someone a kook
- right-wing kook
Lindsey Graham saying he's a he's a kook and unfit to serve.
- Lindsey Graham saying he's a he's a kook and unfit to serve.
- And he's been considered a kook and a conspiracy theorist.
- And look, she's I don't think she's a kook at all.
- The generosity of of Emerson and his mother and his sister and all the townspeople who just thought he was a kook but helped him out like they fed that vision.
- I was as struck by and the fact that it's this is not just some kook.
Examples
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I'm a kook.
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At the fair, I met a kook who claimed he could talk to animals.
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Man, this kook is testing us, man.
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Write your own damn story, or that kook mom of yours will write it for you.
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You thought he was a kook.
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One can see he is another kook with the idea God is guiding him.
Blog text (15) -
You think I'm a kook again? "No," I said, laughing.
Fiction book (1997) -
You're being a total kook.
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He's a kook, it's plain and simple, Olivia.
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Famous authors are routinely badgered by kooks, but the not-so-famous are often open to hearing from their readers.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who acts in a strange or unusual way
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8.6
A person who behaves very strangely and may be dangerous
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9.8
A person who behaves in a strange or wild way
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8.2
A person who has strange or unrealistic ideas
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7.7
A person who is often angry and has strange ideas
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7.2
A person who acts in a strange way
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9.7
A person who behaves in strange or silly ways
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7.8
A person who seems strange and makes others uncomfortable
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6.1
A person who is clearly different from others and does not fit in
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8.5
Something, like a person or an idea, that is very strange
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8.6
A person who acts in a silly or strange way
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9.9
A person who behaves very strangely
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9.9
A person who behaves in a very strange or wild way
2
9.1
A person who acts in a very angry, dangerous, or unpredictable way
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7.0
A person who behaves in an unusual way that others find odd
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6.0
A person with unusual habits or behavior
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6.8
A person who acts in a way people think is strange
1
9.1
An insulting word for a person who acts very silly or strange
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8.8
A person who acts in a way that seems crazy
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9.9
A person who acts in a strange way that others find unpleasant
A person who acts strange and makes others uncomfortable
A person who behaves in a strange or unusual way
A person who acts in a strange or unusual way
A person who behaves in a very strange and unreasonable way that worries others
A person who acts in an odd or unusual way
A person who behaves in a wild or strange way
Antonyms
How Eccentric
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kook comes from the bird name cuckoo, a word people long used to mean 'crazy', so calling someone a kook is like saying they are odd or eccentric.