Definitions for loons

loons loon

Spelling: [loon]
IPA: /lun/

Loons is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in loons (lnoos).

Definitions for loons

noun

  1. any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  2. a crazy or simple-minded person.

Origin of loons

First recorded in 1625-35; perhaps alteration of loom3

Examples for loons

That loon is known as “Dr. Who,” and his nerdy fans are legion.

There was Sen. Claire McCaskill, fresh after dispatching Tea Party loon Todd Akin, on Meet the Press.

As if one loon—I mean as if one Chapter member in the family wasn't enough.

Next thing you know that loon Glenn Beck will have a hit TV show.

Gin I could have come up in time, the loon had never risen from the ground.'

Then he threw off his main-hatch and "haw-hawed" like a loon.

Sticking with six brackets is supposedly meant to signal that he believes in a little stability and is not a loon.

Knowing what she knew of her brother, loon Dyke could never again be her home.

But a loon flapped up from the rushes, brushing the priest's face with its wings.

As the loon brigades proved as they berated Precious, our humanity is the enemy of ideologues.

Word Value for loons
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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