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Plural of loon

regular plural

The plural of loon is loons.

Forms of loon

Singularloon /ˈluːn/
Pluralloons
Countablecountable

Loons in a sentence

  • First, a prominent Tory called the party’s rank and file “swivel-eyed loons.”2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry rank and file
  • Richardson, Warner, Lewis and Adamson are not swivel-eyed, right-wing loons — Richardson was Bob Hawke’s chief of staff.2019, Greg Sheridan, New Chinese era of living dangerously. From the entry swivel-eyed
  • Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother. From the entry quandy

Meaning of loon

  1. noun A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
  2. noun An idler, a lout.
  3. noun A boy, a lad.

Full definition of loon

Questions about the plural of loon

What is the plural of loon?
The plural of loon is loons.
Is loon countable?
Loon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loon (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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