kook

See also: Kook and köök

English

Etymology

Possibly from cuckoo

Pronunciation

• enPR: ko͞ok, IPA^(key): /kuːk/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

kook (plural kooks)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

2. (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.

Derived terms

• kook cord
• kook out
• kookily
• kookish
• kookishness
• kookology
• kooky, kookie

Translations

eccentric, strange or crazy person

• Czech: podivín m, blázen (cs) m
• Finnish: hullu (fi), sekopää (fi), kahjo (fi)
• German: Exzentriker (de) m, Spinner (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksentriker m, gærning m

• Russian: чуда́к (ru) m (čudák)
• Serbo-Croatian: čudak (sh)
• Spanish: chiflado (es)

boardsport participant who lacks style or skill

• Czech: mimoň m

Anagrams

• Koko, koko

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːk

Verb

kook

1. inflection of koken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German kôke.

Noun

kook (genitive koogi, partitive kooki)

1. cake

   Synonyms: tort, keeks

Declension

Declension of kook (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	kook	koogid
accusative	koogi	koogid
genitive	koogi	kookide
partitive	kooki	kooke kookisid
illative	kooki koogisse	kookidesse koogesse
inessive	koogis	kookides kooges
elative	koogist	kookidest koogest
allative	koogile	kookidele koogele
adessive	koogil	kookidel koogel
ablative	koogilt	kookidelt koogelt
translative	koogiks	kookideks koogeks
terminative	koogini	kookideni
essive	koogina	kookidena
abessive	koogita	kookideta
comitative	koogiga	kookidega
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.