kook

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noun \ ˈkük \

Definition of kook

:one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane :screwball

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Examples of kook in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of kook from the Web

Daily Stormer, a site for and by racist kooks, canceled after disgusting post about Heather Heyer The post includes two photos, one showing the mother of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim and the other a photo of Heyer’s mom.

— jennifer brett, ajc, "Scott Baio is sorry for fake-news post about Charlottesville victim’s mom," 25 Aug. 2017
Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.

— andrew wolfson, USA TODAY, "Solar eclipse 2017: No kooks or doomsayers as 'Eclipseville' preps for big day," 20 Aug. 2017
Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.

— andrew wolfson, The Courier-Journal, "No kooks or doomsayers as Hopkinsville preps for totality on Eclipse Eve," 20 Aug. 2017
Klansman David Duke, conspiracy kook Lyndon LaRouche, and all-purpose figure of fun James Traficant.

— kevin d. williamson, National Review, "A National State of Non-Emergency," 26 July 2017
For perhaps the first time in memory, the fashion-forward Instagram kooks who preen for the cameras outside the shows are dressed the same as an unwittingly hip dad-bod commuter riding the 5:51 from Penn Station to Babylon.

— guy trebay, New York Times, "Real New York Shows From Raf Simons and Todd Snyder," 12 July 2017
Well, 10 months ago, the cops arrested a homegrown kook driving around a suburban mall with a gun, a homemade silencer and 100 rounds of ammo.

— lauren ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Orlando cheated out of money to fight terrorism," 9 June 2017
How many Americans seem to have forgotten the simplest tool of dealing with witless boors, kooks and bullies: Ignore them.

— chris stirewalt, Fox News, "Love in the time of covfefe," 31 May 2017
The French loooove les cookies [lay kook-eeze], and Moko’s super-grainy versions have furnished many a Proustian experience.

— belle cushing, Bon Appetit, "How to Eat Healthyish in Paris," 10 May 2017

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