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 (cs) 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	nom.
	gen.	koogi
genitive			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