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kook noun {C} US INFORMAL a strange person

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Meaning of KOOK
      Pronunciation:    kook Definition:   [n]  someone regarded as 
eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group


            Synonyms:   odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer 
duck

              See Also:   anomaly, unusual person

            kook - definition from jargon
              kook


                 [Usenet; originally and more formally, net.kook] Term used 
to
                 describe a regular poster who continually posts messages 
with no
                 apparent grounding in reality. Different from a troll, 
which
                 implies a sort of sly wink on the part of a poster who 
knows better,
                 kooks really believe what they write, to the extent that 
they believe
                 anything.

                 The kook trademark is paranoia and grandiosity. Kooks will 
often
                 build up elaborate imaginary support structures, fake 
corporations
                 and the like, and continue to act as if those things are 
real even
                 after their falsity has been documented in public.

                 While they may appear harmless, and are usually filtered 
out by the
                 other regular participants in a newsgroup of mailing list, 
they can
                 still cause problems because the necessity for these 
measures is not
                 immediately apparent to newcomers; there are several 
instances on
                 record, for example, of journalists writing stories with 
quotes from
                 kooks who caught them unaware.

                 An entertaining web page chronicling the activities of many 
notable
                 kooks can be found at http://www.crank.net/usenet.html.


            kook - definition from moby-thesaurus
              57 Moby Thesaurus words for "kook":
                 alien, aliene, bedlamite, borderline case, case, character,
                 crackbrain, crackpot, crank, cuckoo, dement, demoniac, 
ding-a-ling,
                 eccentric, energumen, erratic, fanatic, flake, fou, freak,
                 harebrain, hermit, hobo, idiot, lone wolf, loner, loon, 
loony,
                 lunatic, madman, maniac, maverick, meshuggenah, natural, 
noncompos,
                 nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original,
                 outsider, pariah, phrenetic, queer duck, queer fish,
                 queer specimen, rara avis, raving lunatic, recluse, 
screwball,
                 solitary, strange duck, tramp, type, weirdo, zealot






"Charles D. Bohne" <spam@PasoSchweiz.de> wrote in message 
news:gsruu050acf58dnljjjch0ikr2bru7nmp1@4ax.com...
> On 19 Jan 2005 21:29:11 -0600, Bertie the Bunyip <XZXZ@XZXZ.,XZXZX>
> wrote:
>
>>It's one of th ewonders of nature. Like Herpes
>>
>>
>>Bertei
>
> In your case that's called  HIV.