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English
Etymology
Possibly from cuckoo
Pronunciation
Noun
kook (plural kooks)
- (slang, chiefly US) An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
- Synonyms: nutjob, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:mad person, Thesaurus:strange person
2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times:The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks. They had to pick up their kook phone, subscribe to the kook newsletter, drive to the kook convention. Nowadays, all the kook has to do is log in to Facebook, where his feed will be enlivened by the chatter of fellow — and likely more extreme — kooks, toward which Facebook’s algorithms helpfully steer him.
- (surfing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.
Derived terms
Translations
eccentric, strange or crazy person
boardsport participant who lacks style or skill
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
kook
- inflection of koken:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Estonian
Etymology
From Middle Low German kôke.
Noun
kook (genitive koogi, partitive kooki)
- cake
- Synonyms: tort, keeks
Declension