kookn.
/kuːk/, U.S. /kuk/ slang.
1. A cranky, crazy, or eccentric person. Frequently attributive or as adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person
fantastical1589
fantastic1598
earwig brain1599
extravagant1627
fanatic1644
energumen1660
original1675
toy-pate1702
gig1777
quiz1780
quoz?1780
rum touch1800
crotcheteer1815
pistol1828
eccentric1832
case1833
originalist1835
cure1856
crotchet-monger1874
curiosity1874
crank1881
crackpot1883
faddist1883
schwärmer1884
hard case1892
finger1899
mad hatter1905
nut1908
numéro1924
screwball1933
wack1938
fruitcake1942
odd bod1942
oddball1943
ghoster1953
raver1959
kook1960
flake1968
woo-woo1972
zonky1972
wacko1977
headbanger1981
1960 Daily Mail 22 Aug. 4/5 A kook, Daddy-O, is a screwball who is ‘gone’ farther than most.
1963 Time 4 Oct. 37 ‘Don't think that just because he talked about those way-out rockets he's a kook,’ cautioned a fellow officer.
1964 Economist 28 Nov. 969/2 Thousands of ‘beatniks, kooks, and crackpots’.
1965 J. Potts Only Good Secretary (1966) ii. 26 Max is kind of a kook. He paints these kooky pictures.
1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 18 Jan. in White House Diary (1970) 623 Mrs. Hughes..said..‘I think that anybody who takes pot because there is a war on is a kook.’
1968 N.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.
1970 E. 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.
1971 Black World June 67/1 These marchers were all probably a bunch of kooks like Harry always said.
1973 Publishers 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. Originally U.S. A novice, or one who is inexpert, in surf-riding. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types
rider1914
surf-bum1957
big kahuna1959
gremlin1961
hot dogger1961
kook1961
goofy foot1962
hodad1962
surfie1962
goofy footer1963
natural1965
goofy surfer1968
switchfoot1970
boogie boarder1979
grummet1986
waxhead1987
grom1988
wakeboarder1994
kitesurfer1995
1961 in Amer. Speech (1962) 37 150.
1966 Surfer 7 9 This letter is to protest about dumb kook girls out in the water.
1966 Surfer 7 17 All most of [these surfers] are is a bunch of loud-mouthed kooks who come down here and clutter up the beach.
1966 Surfer 7 39 Malibu..was also the birthplace of the ‘kook box’, that monstrosity known as the poor man's paddle board.
1971 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 2 25 The reason for this reticence is that surfers wish to differentiate themselves from kooks, who surf badly.
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