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kook

[ kook ]

noun

Slang.
  1. an eccentric, strange, or foolish person.
  2. an insane person.


kook

/ °ì³ÜË°ì /

noun

  1. informal.
    an eccentric, crazy, or foolish person
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kook1

First recorded in 1955–60; perhaps alteration of cuckoo
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kook1

C20: probably from cuckoo
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A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee.

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Garvey calls himself a “moderate conservative,†which I guess means he’s a mainstream Republican, not a right-wing kook.

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Juxtaposing that with this Indiana Jones character, Theodore, who may be a kook or savior.

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When you paddle out, it’s as though you’ve entered a new world with its own language that might sound like: “Did you see that kook? He snaked me on such a gnarly wave!â€

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“Environmentalists in those days were viewed as little old ladies in tennis shoes or nuts or cranks or kooks.â€

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