kook
/kuːk/
kook noun: an eccentric, strange or crazy person.
Noun
kook (plural kooks)
- An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
- 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...2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times
- The administration’s deep cuts to scientific and medical research have been compounded by Trump’s decision to hand control of public health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a bona fide kook,[…].2025 April 29, Jonathan Chait, “An Unsustainable Presidency”, in The Atlantic
- A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.
Proper noun capitalized: Kook
Kook (plural Kooks)
- A surname.
kook meaning in Urdu
kook in Urdu
- عجیب شخص, خبطی, نرالا, پاگل
Examples of kook in a sentence
- I looked around and realized that the lineup was all kooks.
- If you're interested in kookology as it's formally known, you'll be wanting to check out alt.usenet.kooks.
- Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
Synonyms of kook
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- eccentric
- fruit and nut case
- fruit cake
- fruit loop
- fruitloop
- head case
- loony
- loony tune
- lunatic
- madhead
- mental case
- nut
- nut ball
- nutbar
- nutburger
- nutcase
- nutter
- psycho
- psychoceramic
- schizo
- screwball
- space cadet
- space pilot
- unconventional
- wackadoo
- wackadoodle
- wacko
- whackjob
- whacko
- wingnut
Forms of kook
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kooks |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Kooks |
Origin of kook
Possibly from cuckoo.
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Kook, an occupational surname for a baker or cook * Variant spelling of the Korean surname 극 (geuk); compare Kuk.
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Questions about kook
- What does kook mean?
- Kook means an eccentric, strange or crazy person.
- What is kook in Urdu?
- Kook in Urdu is عجیب شخص, خبطی, نرالا. See Kook meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is kook?
- Kook can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce kook?
- Kook is pronounced /kuːk/.
- What is the plural of kook?
- The plural of kook is kooks.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: kook (page history and authors); Kook (page history and authors); kook (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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