| 单词 | kook |
| 释义 | kook (once / 19765 pages) n A kook is a nut or a weirdo — in other words, an eccentric person. Your favorite aunt might be a bit of a kook, with her crazy hair and wild outfits. The class clown in school is often a kook, saying nutty things in order to get attention, and you may think of the guy in your town who always holds a sign saying, "THE END IS NEAR" as a kook too. The word comes from kooky, "strange," probably stemming from cuckoo, which is a type of bird but also slang for "mad or insane person." WORD FAMILYkook: kooks, kooky+/kooky: kookier, kookiest, kookily USAGE EXAMPLESIt says, I live in the dark like a monster, or a kook; no good with the sun. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) Not rape jokes but drape jokes; not parodies but spoofs orchestrated by a self-described kook that were a goof and a hoot. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) In return, it reaped the nigh-nuclear energy of kooks, cranks, outcasts and iconoclasts whose take-no-prisoners anger invigorated a Grand Old Party. Seattle Times(Oct 30, 2016) n someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group Syn|Hyper odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck anomaly, unusual person a person who is unusual |
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