kook
an eccentric, strange, or foolish person.
an insane person.
Origin of kook
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How to use kook in a sentence
We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains.
The one silver lining of this Rand Paul ascension is that he would put these kooks out of business.
Tea Partiers from Rand Paul to Sharron Angle have been tarred as wingnuts, kooks.
In any large group, you are likely to find some kooks, as the Tea Party organizers are fond of pointing out defensively.
The Rambagh today is still full of the quirks and kooks of its colorful history.
British Dictionary definitions for kook
/ (kuːk) /
US and Canadian informal an eccentric, crazy, or foolish person
Origin of kook
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