kook
noun/kuːk/
Frequency rank: #17,749 most common English word
Meaning
a crazy or eccentric person; someone with very strange ideas or behavior.
Example sentence
Everyone at the party thought he was some kind of kook because he kept talking about lizard people controlling the government.
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