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kook

/kuːk/

/kuk/

kooknoun

kooks

/kuːk/

/kuk/

Translations

чудак

The old man was considered a kook by the townspeople.

Старика считали чудаком в городе.

Additional translations

чокнутый

сумасброд

Definitions

A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy.

Everyone thought he was a bit of a kook because of his unusual hobbies.

In surfing slang, a beginner who lacks skill or ignores accepted etiquette.

The lineup was crowded with kooks dropping in on every wave.

Synonyms

kookverb

kooked

Past Simple

kooked

Past Participle

kooking

Gerund

/kuːk/

/kuk/

Slang usage, chiefly in surfing and informal contexts.

Definitions

To blunder or perform ineptly, especially while surfing; to act like a kook.

He kooked the takeoff and wiped out on the inside section.

Synonyms

act bizarrely

act unpredictably

behave erratically

freak out

go bonkers

go crazy

act crazy

act nutty

behave oddly

act kooky

behave eccentrically

act eccentrically

kookadjective

more kook

Comp.

most kook

Super.

Attributive use of the noun meaning ‘eccentric, strange’.

Definitions

Eccentric, strange, or characteristic of a kook (used attributively).

They dismissed his kook ideas as impossible to implement.

Synonyms