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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