fundiloon

English

Noun

fundiloon (plural fundiloons)

1. (politics, informal, rare) A fundamentalist loon, that is, a person who is fundamentalist (religiously and socially conservative) and (regarded as) crazy.
   • 2001 December 4, Beowulf, “Where was God?”, in alt.atheism‎^[1] (Usenet):

     What really gets me is that the fundiloons (yeah, know, like the real ones) of the world are so troubled by Harry Potter because it's "getting at the kids before they can discern truth from falsehood", but nearly every church I know of does the exact same thing.

   • 2003 July 30, Ron Sullivan, “NEWS: Skinless Child Show”, in alt.support.childfree‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Yes, I did request a US trip -- wonder how many requests it would take to get them to brave the fundiloons here.

   • 2003 August 10, Paul Robson, “Emigration”, in alt.france‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Note: Religious people regularly lie about being/having been secular or atheists. Interesting ; even if youarentthere isn't a fundiloon, he sure as hell is an ignorant bigot.

   • 2007 December 31, johac, “Huckabee: "...take this nation back for Christ."”, in alt.atheism‎^[4] (Usenet):

     This fundiloon is becoming more and more worrisome. The good news is that he's apparently flagging in the polls.

Synonyms

• wingnut