kook

[ kook ]

noun

, Slang.

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

kook

/ kuːk /

noun

1. informal.
   an eccentric, crazy, or foolish person

Word History and Origins

Origin of kook¹

First recorded in 1955–60; perhaps alteration of cuckoo

Word History and Origins

Origin of kook¹

C20: probably from cuckoo

Example Sentences

We may never know if he controlled her, and if so to what extent, but in recent years Dion has emerged as a more fun person, one who seems to have embraced her public image as a bit of a kook, where she used to appear rather smug and self-serious.

From The Daily Beast

Maybe, after decades and decades of being written off as kooks, the believers will have some government-backed proof.

From Washington Post

Even if you barely paid attention to surfing, you’d no doubt heard about angry locals, always men, threatening kooks at coveted breaks.

From Outside Online

For now, I’d stay out of the water for a little while, but I’m a health kook.

From Voice of San Diego

Paul watched his father marginalized and mocked as he was trapped by the GOP establishment determination that he was a kook.

From The Daily Beast

One sure sign Gov. Jindal is hungry for higher office is his willingness to sup at the table of the kook right.

From The Daily Beast

But Paul Begala says to really make it in politics, he has to break with the kook right.

From The Daily Beast

Water they carried from near Kak-a-mak-kook, named from the alders growing round the stream.

From Project Gutenberg

Remember, it was between three and four centuries back that I lived, the first white man, on the coral isles of Raa Kook.

From Project Gutenberg

It might have been, and the yells the warning howls of a motorist who had burst or lost his honk-kook and his head.

From Project Gutenberg

Emile Kook, only ten years of age, considered as without a rival as a juvenile pianist.

From Project Gutenberg