loon
loon (lo̵̅o̅n)
noun
any of an order (Gaviiformes) of fish-eating, diving birds, with a sharp bill and webbed feet, found mainly in subarctic regions: noted for its weird cry
Etymology: altered (by assoc. with loon) < earlier loom < ON lomr < IE echoic base *lā- > L latrare, to bark
loon (lo̵̅o̅n)
noun
- a clumsy, stupid person
- a crazy person
- Scot.
- a boy
- a harlot
- Archaic
- a person of low rank
- a rogue
Etymology: Scot lown, loun < ME lowen < ? or akin to MDu loen
Converse of object
- have: But then, the fledgling station had a local loon at its helm.
- grin: Uncle Malcolm and the four grinning loons he calls his sons will only ever make any money if United has a successful team.
- gibber: Or, of course, he's just a gibbering loon.
Adjective modifier
- swivel-eyed: If these swivel-eyed loons want us to treat them seriously, they'll have to treat us seriously.
- common: Common loon Gavia emmer 25/4: 8 in breeding plumage at Quail Creek; 1/5: 4 in various plumage, Morro Bay.
- crazed: The live performance of Rudebox was fantastic and so energetic that you couldn't help but dance along to it like a crazed loon!
- wild-eyed: Again, everyone remembers him as the wild-eyed loon, but there has often been a compassion to his work.
- complete: Meanwhile, Mitchell the psychic is giving the parents of the missing girl further reason for thinking they've hired a complete loon.
- young: As a young loon I was fortunate to travel many times on these spur lines.
Modifies a noun
- pant: There was mair flair in Jock's auld loon pants ( the ones he allegedly wore with the Afghan coat )!
For I have a song to sing,O! It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!
Browse dictionary entries near loon
- looming
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- Lookout Mountain
- lookout
- looking glass
- looker-on
- looker
- lookback option
- look up to
- look up
- looney-tunes
- loonie
- loony
- loony bin
- loop
- loop antenna
- Loop Carrier System
- loop current
- loop knot
- loop of Henle
