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Possibly from cuckoo.

kook (plural kooks)

(slang, chiefly US) An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
Synonyms: nutjob, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:mad person, Thesaurus:strange person
- 2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times‎[1]:
  The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks. They had to pick up their kook phone, subscribe to the kook newsletter, drive to the kook convention. Nowadays, all the kook has to do is log in to Facebook, where his feed will be enlivened by the chatter of fellow — and likely more extreme — kooks, toward which Facebook’s algorithms helpfully steer him.
- 2025 April 29, Jonathan Chait, “An Unsustainable Presidency”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
  The administration’s deep cuts to scientific and medical research have been compounded by Trump’s decision to hand control of public health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a bona fide kook, […] .
(surfing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

boardsport participant who lacks style or skill

kook

kook (genitive koogi, partitive kooki)

Declension of kook (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kook	koogid
accusative	nom.
gen.	koogi
genitive	kookide
partitive	kooki	kooke kookisid
illative	kooki koogisse	kookidesse koogesse
inessive	koogis	kookides kooges
elative	koogist	kookidest koogest
allative	koogile	kookidele koogele
adessive	koogil	kookidel koogel
ablative	koogilt	kookidelt koogelt
translative	koogiks	kookideks koogeks
terminative	koogini	kookideni
essive	koogina	kookidena
abessive	koogita	kookideta
comitative	koogiga	kookidega