kook

noun

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

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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
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Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025 No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks. — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025 The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook. — Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025 For the pogues and kooks who've already torn through the first half of the new season of Outer Banks, season 4 part 2 is on its way. — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for kook

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration from cuckoo

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of kook was in 1960

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kook

noun
ˈkük How to pronounce kook (audio)
: a person who acts in a strange or foolish way : nut
kooky
ˈkü-kē
adjective

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