Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
cook .
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- noun slang an
eccentric ,strange orcrazy person ; aweirdo . - noun surfing A board sport participant who has poor style or skill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We won't see a positive growth in jobs until this leftist liberal kook is out of office!
Top economists say unemployment coming down, but slowly 2009
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#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.
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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.
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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 2010
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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 2009
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BECK: This is something that, I mean, I ` ve been called a kook now for almost a year talking about Iran.
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BECK: This is something that, I mean, I ` ve been called a kook now for almost a year talking about Iran.
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May 14th, 2006 at 6:30 am leslie253- Maybe we should start calling the kook-aid crowd, the left behind people instead.
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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.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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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).
Watts Up With That? 2009
100001016886860 commented on the word kook
person of strange behavior/ sentence- He's a real kook about cleanliness.(Newbury House Dictionary)
September 25, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word kook
a strange duck?!?!
March 17, 2012