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

It’s tempting to write off NatCon, and Schmitt’s speech in particular, as an example of a bunch of right-wing kooks indulging their little fever dream of creating a white Christian autocracy.

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“There’s a certain undertone of ‘good riddance’ when kooks like these are vaporized by the earth’s latest ill-mannered guests.”

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For decades, he tried to wriggle out of that typecasting to play kooks and himbos.

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Yet the individual set pieces were so vivid and funny and weird that the tale became one about Gaga’s embrace of her role as music’s greatest kook.

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A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee.

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