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See also: Kook and köök

English

Etymology

Possibly from cuckoo.

Pronunciation

Noun

kook (plural kooks)

  2. (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.
    • 2025 April 29, Jonathan Chait, “An Unsustainable Presidency”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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, […] .
  3. (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.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

kook

  1. inflection of koken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German kôke.

Noun

kook (genitive koogi, partitive kooki)

  1. cake
    Synonyms: tort, keeks

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation), singular ...

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