": one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball":[]
},
"examples":[
"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 on the Web",
"Almedilla\u2019s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But being a professional kook was a lonely crusade. \u2014 Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic , 17 June 2021",
"Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook , finally as an establishment dinosaur \u2014 and throughout, as a woman. \u2014 Michelle Goldberg, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
"The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 22 Apr. 2020",
"This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook , and possibly even a murderer. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2020",
"The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent. \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Besides partisans and kooks , who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1960, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"by shortening & alteration from cuckoo":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u00fck"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"flake",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"zany"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232253",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"kookaburra":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a brownish kingfisher ( Dacelo novaeguineae synonym D. gigas ) of Australia that is about the size of a crow and has a call resembling loud laughter":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Australia\u2019s poppy song was written with AI trained on previous Eurovision hits along with contributions from a neural network fed samples of noises made by koalas, kookaburras and Tasmanian devils. \u2014 Amy Thomson, Bloomberg.com , 24 Apr. 2020",
"But in a fishing village thousands of miles away, where giant goannas scuttled through gumtrees and kookaburras laughed, my siblings were hunting for wild animal scat and leaping into the ocean. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2020",
"There are currently at least four species at the zoo whose native habitat is Australia: a bearded dragon lizard named Six, Dundee the kookaburra , a Fly River turtle named Penny and a pair of tawny frogmouth birds called Grover and Timrek. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Back in our adult clothes, we were sent away with gifts of commemorative stuffed kookaburras . \u2014 Sarah Lyall, New York Times , 13 Nov. 2019",
"And despite their sometimes-aggressive tendencies, the magpie was voted Australia\u2019s \u2018\u2018Bird of the Year\u2019\u2019 in a 2017 poll \u2014 ahead of the Australian white ibis and the laughing kookaburra . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Two kookaburras in a suburb of Australia were caught making love on a power line Wednesday afternoon until their untimely demise, which resulted in a power outage for around 1,000 homes. \u2014 Joshua Bote, USA TODAY , 16 June 2019",
"Happy Friday, spangled kookaburras , and welcome back to another edition of This Week in Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. \u2014 Cady Drell, Marie Claire , 14 Sep. 2018",
"There is perhaps no better place to go bird-watching this holiday season - and no easier way to get so close to so many exotic flying creatures, including rhinoceros hornbills, Malayan flying fox fruit bats and laughing kookaburras . \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland.com , 20 Dec. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Wiradhuri (Australian aboriginal language of central New South Wales) gugubarra":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccb\u0259-r\u0259",
"\u02c8ku\u0307-k\u0259-\u02ccb\u0259r-\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192142",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"kookie":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": having the characteristics of a kook : crazy , offbeat":[]
},
"examples":[
"I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
"if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1959, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8k\u00fc-k\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025456",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"kooky":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": having the characteristics of a kook : crazy , offbeat":[]
},
"examples":[
"I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
"if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
