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kook slang.|kuːk|
[prob. abbrev. of cuckoo a. or cuckoo n. 3.]
1. A cranky, crazy, or eccentric person. Freq. attrib. or as adj.
1960Daily Mail 22 Aug. 4/5 A kook, Daddy-O, is a screwball who is ‘gone’ farther than most. 1963Time 4 Oct. 37 ‘Don't think that just because he talked about those way-out rockets he's a kook,’ cautioned a fellow officer. 1964Economist 28 Nov. 969/2 Thousands of ‘beatniks, kooks, and crackpots’. 1965J. Potts Only Good Secretary (1966) ii. 26 Max is kind of a kook. He paints these kooky pictures. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 18 Jan. (1970) 623 Mrs. Hughes..said..‘I think that anybody who takes pot because there is a war on is a kook.’ 1968N.Y. Times 26 Mar. 32 ‘Has it ever occurred to you that the kook market has grown?’ said a United States auto executive when asked to explain the growing sales of foreign cars. 1970E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) xv. 166 It's a kook clique all right. It's..a happy place. That's kooks to you cops. 1971Black World June 67/1 These marchers were all probably a bunch of kooks like Harry always said. 1973Publishers Weekly 25 June 68/1 A bona fide kook who is never quite able to get in gear till he finally dies paddling his canoe across the Atlantic.
2. orig. U.S. A novice, or one who is inexpert, in surf-riding. Also attrib.
1961in Amer. Speech (1962) XXXVII. 150. 1966 Surfer VII. 9 This letter is to protest about dumb kook girls out in the water. Ibid. 17 All most of [these surfers] are is a bunch of loud-mouthed kooks who come down here and clutter up the beach. Ibid. 39 Malibu..was also the birthplace of the ‘kook box’, that monstrosity known as the poor man's paddle board. 1971Studies in English (Univ. of Cape Town) II. 25 The reason for this reticence is that surfers wish to differentiate themselves from kooks, who surf badly. |