The word "kook" is usable in written English and is considered informal
It is often used to describe someone who is eccentric or has unconventional ideas. Example: "Everyone thought he was a kook for believing in aliens." Alternatives include "eccentric" or "weirdo."
Young voters also form much of the support base of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, an irascible monarchist and anti-feminist kook whose Congress of the New Right party took 7% of the vote in the 2014 European elections, enough to win four seats.
But Senator Cruz's candidacy is worth taking seriously because he represents a distinctive style in American politics, which may prove more popular than his detractors realise.Among the detractors, opinions range from those who think Mr Cruz is the new Joe McCarthy to those who reckon he is a (mostly) harmless kook.
Benny Morris, an Israeli historian who turned from critic to defender of the state, earns the epithet "raging kook".
A Vietnam vet and a Mormon, Mr Yettaw is clearly a kook: even his wife admits it, though she insists he is peace-loving.
This weight of influence bears down heaviest of all on Kat Reagan, whose character Niamh is a mildly irritating kook in the tradition of Phoebe Buffay.
He ponders ageing and surfing: "the process of becoming a kook again".
A surfing holiday can encompass everything from a weekend camping in North Devon, to a luxury "surfari" aboard a charter yacht in the Indian Ocean, and there are options to suit everyone, from "kook" (total beginner) to hard-core "shredder".
So to reassure the public, Paramount built a campaign around the word "kook", the derivative of cuckoo that was designed to give nonconformist eccentricity (and general wickedness) a positive spin.
On his therapist's prompting, Dano starts writing about his ideal woman, the kind of perky, free-spirited kook whose sole function in indie romantic comedies is to help the dweebish hero loosen up.
But by today, as TPM noted, even Rush Limbaugh, who'd talked up Massa's story, was calling him a "legitimate kook".
At the beginning of 2008, Ron Paul was treated as he always had been by the Republican establishment: like a kook.
