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Synonyms for loon


Grammar : Noun
Spell : loon
Phonetic Transcription : lun



Définition of loon

Origin :
  • large diving bird (especially the Great Northern Diver), 1630s, from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian lom, from Old Norse lomr).
  • noun crackpot
Example sentences :
  • As if one loon—I mean as if one Chapter member in the family wasn't enough.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Then he threw off his main-hatch and "haw-hawed" like a loon.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Gin I could have come up in time, the loon had never risen from the ground.'
  • Extract from : « Two Penniless Princesses » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Knowing what she knew of her brother, Loon Dyke could never again be her home.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • But a loon flapped up from the rushes, brushing the priest's face with its wings.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut
  • He's crazier than a loon in most of his hunches, but he's filled four of our biggest gaps.
  • Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • "Take a long, long breath and hold it while we go down," said the loon.
  • Extract from : « A Treasury of Eskimo Tales » by Clara Kern Bayliss
  • There the loon took the boy on its back and dived with him to the bottom.
  • Extract from : « A Treasury of Eskimo Tales » by Clara Kern Bayliss
  • Well, he was hallooing like a loon, and we waited till he came up.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 » by Various
  • These too are fantastically decorated with feathers, usually of the loon.
  • Extract from : « The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo » by Ernest William Hawkes

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