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单词 kook
释义

kook

noun

ˈkük How to pronounce kook (audio)
: one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball

Synonyms

  • character
  • codger
  • crack
  • crackbrain
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • eccentric
  • flake
  • fruitcake
  • head case
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • nutter [British slang]
  • oddball
  • oddity
  • original
  • quiz
  • screwball
  • weirdo
  • zany
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
Recent Examples on the Web Almedilla’s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook. Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022 But being a professional kook was a lonely crusade. Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021 Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook, finally as an establishment dinosaur — and throughout, as a woman. Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, 5 May 2020 The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise. Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020 This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook, and possibly even a murderer. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020 The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent. Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020 Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus. Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2020 Besides partisans and kooks, who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions? Washington Post, 10 May 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration from cuckoo

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

kook

noun

ˈkük How to pronounce kook (audio)
: a person who acts in a strange or insane way

kook

noun

as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • eccentric
  • crackpot
  • weirdo
  • character
  • nutcase
  • nutter
  • original
  • codger
  • oddball
  • crank
  • nut
  • flake
  • screwball
  • freak
  • maverick
  • fruitcake
  • zany
  • bohemian
  • odd duck
  • crackbrain
  • oddity
  • rarity
  • crack
  • quiz
  • head case
  • piece of work
  • coot
  • geezer
  • quixote
  • nonconformist
  • curio
  • fantast
  • fantastico

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sheep
  • follower
  • conformist
  • conformer
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