kook

Off-kilter individual

A kook is an eccentric or crazy person—someone whose behavior or ideas seem strange or irrational.

The word carries a dismissive tone: Don't listen to him, he's a total kook.

In surfing culture, kook specifically means an inexperienced or clueless surfer who gets in others' way or doesn't follow etiquette: The lineup was full of kooks on longboards.

eccentric

weirdo

Peculiar person, dismissively

oddballEccentric individual
crackpotEccentric with strange ideas
nutcaseEccentric or deranged person

freak · misfit · whacko · loony · screwball · fruitcake · madcap · goofball · dingbat · zany

conspiracy

theorist

Developer of explanatory systems

trutherOne rejecting mainstream accounts
tinfoilThin metallic sheeting
paranoidUnreasonably suspicious of others

believer · fringe · crackpot · delusional · flat-earther · anti-vaxxer · denialist · unhinged · obsessed · ranting

surfer

beginner

One who lacks experience

newbieInexperienced person, informally
drop-inUnscheduled brief visit
snakingMoving in curves

wipeout · flailing · clueless · dangerous · lineup · etiquette · hazard · oblivious · reckless · inexperienced

kook

weirdo

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