Loon

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loon \Loon\ (l[=oo]n), n. [Scot. loun, lown, loon; akin to OD.
     loen a stupid man; prob. for an older lown, and akin to E.
     lame.]
     A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loon \Loon\, n. [For older loom, Icel. l[=o]mr; akin to Dan. &
     Sw. lom.] (Zool.)
     Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the
     genus {Urinator} (formerly {Colymbus}), noted for their
     expertness in diving and swimming under water. The common
     loon, or great northern diver ({Urinator imber}, or {Colymbus
     torquatus}), and the red-throated loon or diver ({Urinator
     septentrionalis}), are the best known species. See {Diver}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loon
       n 1: a worthless lazy fellow
       2: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the
          northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back;
          related to the grebes [syn: {diver}]
       3: a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
          [syn: {addle-head}, {addlehead}, {birdbrain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "loon":
     Boeotian, aliene, bedlamite, block, borderline case, clod,
     crackbrain, crackpot, dement, demoniac, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope,
     dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, energumen, fanatic,
     flake, fou, gowk, idiot, jobbernowl, kook, lackwit, lamebrain,
     lightweight, looby, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, meshuggenah,
     niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, non compos,
     noncompos, nut, phrenetic, put, raving lunatic, screwball, stupid,
     thickwit, weirdo, witling